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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Acc. 2019.013 was added to the collection in 2019.  Additional accruals are anticipated.","These two items were added to the collection in 2019.","Edmund Andros was the Ggovernor under the Crown, 1692-1698.","Robert Hunter was Governor of Virginia under the Crown, 1707-1709. 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The recipient in unknown.","Copper plate engraving.","Receipt for Beverly Randolph, Esq., for fifty pounds as a fee for himself, his brother Robert, and his ward Peter Randolph in their suit in the high Court of Chancery against the execution of their father. Signed by Edmund Randolph (Governor of the Commonwealth, 1786-1788).","Petition brought by Isaac Wood against James Gray of the state of South Carolina for James Gray refusing to pay Wood \"two likely Negroes or one houndred and fifty pounds Sterling\". The petition is directed to the Honorable George Walton Esquire, Chief Justice of the Said State, and the Assistant Justices of the County of Richmond.","Full title: \"The Answer of Thomas Lawson to the bill of complaint of Ralph Wormely Junior, Mann Page, Francis Lightfoot Lee, and Warner Lewis, surviving acting executors of John Tayloe, deceased\". 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Acc. 2019.013 was added to the collection in 2019.  Additional accruals are anticipated.","These two items were added to the collection in 2019.","Edmund Andros was the Ggovernor under the Crown, 1692-1698.","Robert Hunter was Governor of Virginia under the Crown, 1707-1709. 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Loyall resigned his position on April 17, 1861 because of his southern sympathies. His first wife Rebecca Tyler died in 1812 and his second wife Margaret Kelly died in 1855.","Robert Dinwiddie, (born 1693, died July 27, 1770), British, served as Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, 1751-1758 under Governor Willem Anne van Keppel, and later as deputy, July 1756-January 1758, for John Campbell, Early of Loudon.","Conserved with funds from the Jamestowne Society.","Documents, prints, and heraldry pertaining to Virginia governors from the 17th and 18th centuries. Includes letters and documents signed by John Murray, Robert Brooke, James Wood, Beverly Randolph, Patrick Henry, Edmund Andros, Jeffrey Amherst, Norborne Berkeley, Robert Hunter, Francis Fauquier, Earl De La Warr, James Blair, and Robert Dinwiddie among others. 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His first wife Rebecca Tyler died in 1812 and his second wife Margaret Kelly died in 1855.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Dinwiddie, (born 1693, died July 27, 1770), British, served as Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, 1751-1758 under Governor Willem Anne van Keppel, and later as deputy, July 1756-January 1758, for John Campbell, Early of Loudon.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Edmund Andros was the Ggovernor under the Crown, 1692-1698.","Robert Hunter was Governor of Virginia under the Crown, 1707-1709. He never served in the colony.","Jeffrey Amherst born in Kent, England January 29, 1717-August 3, 1797. 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His first wife Rebecca Tyler died in 1812 and his second wife Margaret Kelly died in 1855.","Robert Dinwiddie, (born 1693, died July 27, 1770), British, served as Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, 1751-1758 under Governor Willem Anne van Keppel, and later as deputy, July 1756-January 1758, for John Campbell, Early of Loudon."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eConserved with funds from the Jamestowne Society.\u003c/p\u003e"],"odd_heading_ssm":["General"],"odd_tesim":["Conserved with funds from the Jamestowne Society."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWilliam Cole Collection of Virginia Governor Documents, 1676-1971, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["William Cole Collection of Virginia Governor Documents, 1676-1971, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, William and Mary."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eDocuments, prints, and heraldry pertaining to Virginia governors from the 17th and 18th centuries. Includes letters and documents signed by John Murray, Robert Brooke, James Wood, Beverly Randolph, Patrick Henry, Edmund Andros, Jeffrey Amherst, Norborne Berkeley, Robert Hunter, Francis Fauquier, Earl De La Warr, James Blair, and Robert Dinwiddie among others. Also included in the collection are prints, coats of arms, and commemorative coins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDisplay of Arms for Thomas West, Baron Delawarr La Warr, Governor under the Virginia Company of London. Motto: \"Jour de ma Vif\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFull title: \"Give under my hand in New York this 25th day of Sept.r 1676 to ye Constable and Overseers of Jamaica, E Andros\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonial Virginia document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter regarding shipping matters from Jeffrey Amherst, New York, to Boston merchant Thomas Hancock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Murray offers himself as a representative of the Peers of Scotland in Parliament and desires the Lordship's vote in the upcoming election. The recipient in unknown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopper plate engraving.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for Beverly Randolph, Esq., for fifty pounds as a fee for himself, his brother Robert, and his ward Peter Randolph in their suit in the high Court of Chancery against the execution of their father. 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Saroni.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo bookplates, for John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun and Royal Governor of Virginia from 1756-1759, and for Ralph Wormeley, Rector of William \u0026amp; Mary and translator of the university charter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrint of Gibson, published in 1820 by T\u0026amp;H Rodd from a 1737 engraving by \"Vandrebanc Pinx\"\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Content Description","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Documents, prints, and heraldry pertaining to Virginia governors from the 17th and 18th centuries. Includes letters and documents signed by John Murray, Robert Brooke, James Wood, Beverly Randolph, Patrick Henry, Edmund Andros, Jeffrey Amherst, Norborne Berkeley, Robert Hunter, Francis Fauquier, Earl De La Warr, James Blair, and Robert Dinwiddie among others. Also included in the collection are prints, coats of arms, and commemorative coins.","Display of Arms for Thomas West, Baron Delawarr La Warr, Governor under the Virginia Company of London. Motto: \"Jour de ma Vif\".","Full title: \"Give under my hand in New York this 25th day of Sept.r 1676 to ye Constable and Overseers of Jamaica, E Andros\".","Colonial Virginia document.","Letter regarding shipping matters from Jeffrey Amherst, New York, to Boston merchant Thomas Hancock.","John Murray offers himself as a representative of the Peers of Scotland in Parliament and desires the Lordship's vote in the upcoming election. The recipient in unknown.","Copper plate engraving.","Receipt for Beverly Randolph, Esq., for fifty pounds as a fee for himself, his brother Robert, and his ward Peter Randolph in their suit in the high Court of Chancery against the execution of their father. Signed by Edmund Randolph (Governor of the Commonwealth, 1786-1788).","Petition brought by Isaac Wood against James Gray of the state of South Carolina for James Gray refusing to pay Wood \"two likely Negroes or one houndred and fifty pounds Sterling\". The petition is directed to the Honorable George Walton Esquire, Chief Justice of the Said State, and the Assistant Justices of the County of Richmond.","Full title: \"The Answer of Thomas Lawson to the bill of complaint of Ralph Wormely Junior, Mann Page, Francis Lightfoot Lee, and Warner Lewis, surviving acting executors of John Tayloe, deceased\". The document discusses Thomas Lawson's involvement in Tayloe's ironworks business in the county of Prince William.","The folder includes three prints of Eyre Coote: two prints published in 1810 and 1815 and a \"Builders of the Empire\" card branded by Wills's Cigarettes.","41st Congress, 3d Session, House of Representatives, Report No. 53. William and Mary College, Virginia, March 3, 1871. \"Mr. Arnell, from the Committee on Education and Labor, made the following report...\"","Full title: Southern War Claims. Speeches of Hon. Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, and Hon. Martin I. Townsend, of New York, on Bill to pay William and Mary College, of Virginia, the Sum of $65,000 for Injuries Received during the Rebellion. Delivered in the House of Representatives April 12, 1878.","Written by Lyon G. Tyler, M. A. LL. D., President of the College of William and Mary.","Commemorative coins for George Wythe, Benjamin Harrison, and Henry Lee.","The print includes a Latin inscription.","One pages with etchings was removed from the book \"William and Mary College\". The other page is from an unidentified source.","Copper engraving of Abraham Nicholas, 18th Century Mayor of Williamsburg, Va. by George Bickham, 1722 and a copper plate folio page engraving from A Display of Heraldry by John Guillim. This was the heraldry of Lord De Lar Warr and other British Barons dated 1679.","Print of the Right Reverend D. Thomas Sherlock, Lord Bishop of London, Dean of the Chapels Royal, and one of the lords of His Majestys, Most Honourable Privy Council, Vanloo pinx, 1740/S. Ravenet Sculp 1756;","Torn from book, p. 214. vol. 4;","Print, TWills Pinx/J. McArdell Fecit.","\"Sold by J. 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Saroni.","Two bookplates, for John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun and Royal Governor of Virginia from 1756-1759, and for Ralph Wormeley, Rector of William \u0026 Mary and translator of the university charter","Print of Gibson, published in 1820 by T\u0026H Rodd from a 1737 engraving by \"Vandrebanc Pinx\""],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"names_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Cole, William W.","Botetourt, Norborne Berkeley, Baron de, ca. 1718-1770","Randolph, Beverley, 1754-1797","Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of, 1732-1809","Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797","Fauquier, Francis","Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799","Andros, Edmund, Sir, 1637-1714","Hunter, Robert","Dinwiddie, Robert, 1693-1770","Dunmore, John Murray, 4th Earl of, 1732-1809","Brooke, Robert","Lee, Henry, 1756-1818","Blair, James, 1741-1772","Wood, James, 1741-1813","Loudoun, John Campbell, Earl of, 1705-1782","Wormeley, Ralph, 1744-1806","Gibson, Edmund, Bp. of London, 1669-1748 "],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center"],"names_coll_ssim":["Cole, William W."],"persname_ssim":["Cole, William W.","Botetourt, Norborne Berkeley, Baron de, ca. 1718-1770","Randolph, Beverley, 1754-1797","Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of, 1732-1809","Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797","Fauquier, Francis","Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799","Andros, Edmund, Sir, 1637-1714","Hunter, Robert","Dinwiddie, Robert, 1693-1770","Dunmore, John Murray, 4th Earl of, 1732-1809","Brooke, Robert","Lee, Henry, 1756-1818","Blair, James, 1741-1772","Wood, James, 1741-1813","Loudoun, John Campbell, Earl of, 1705-1782","Wormeley, Ralph, 1744-1806","Gibson, Edmund, Bp. of London, 1669-1748 "],"language_ssim":["English"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":57,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T11:35:09.663Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_7720"}},{"id":"wvmturhc_repositories_2_resources_2221","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"William C. 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Tavenner, Civil War Correspondence and Other Material","Lewis County.","Civil War - Virginia 17th Volunteer Cavalry Regiment.","Civil War battles - Monocacy.","No special access restriction applies.","William Cabell Tavenner was the eldest child of Cabell Tavenner and Jennet S. (Withers) Tavenner. During Tavenner's childhood the family lived in Weston, (West) Virginia. The extended family had ties to Lewis County, Harrison County, and Wood County. Tavenner had three siblings, a younger brother, Thomas Alexander (referred to as \"Tat\" in the letters), and two sisters, Elizabeth M. and Jennet A. (who is often referred to as \"Jen\" in the letters). William Tavenner's paternal grandfather was Colonel Thomas Tavenner, one of the early settlers of Wood county and a prominent man in local affairs. Tavenner's maternal grandfather was Alexander Scott Withers, the author of \"Chronicles of Border Warfare\", an important early history of the settlement of western Virginia. Two of Tavenner's maternal aunts also appear in the collection's correspondence, including Mrs. Mary T. Owen of Galveston, Texas (referred to as \"Poca\" in letters), and Elizabeth Ann Thornhill of New Orleans (referred to as \"Bettie\").","The exact date and circumstances of Tavenner's entry into the military are unknown. He was stationed in New Orleans during the first years of the war, later moving northward to Virginia sometime between the spring of 1862 and January 1863. He was elected Lieutenant Colonel of the newly formed 17th Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment in January 1863. Tavenner was fatally wounded at the Battle of Monocacy on 9 July 1864. He died of his injuries on 11 July 1863 at the nearby Gambrill Mill, which was used as a field hospital after the battle.","For more genealogical and historical information regarding the Tavenner family, see: A\u0026M 81; Cook, Roy Bird (1886-1961), Collector. Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material; Folder 1a.","Letters of William C. Tavenner and members of his family. The family had ties to Lewis and Harrison County. Tavenner's letters include both personal and military correspondence from the Civil War, most relating to his service as a soldier in the Confederate Army (as Lieutenant Colonel of the 17th Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment) and his death at the Battle of Monocacy. There are also letters from other members of Tavenner's family from before and after the Civil War.","Series include:","Series 1. Correspondence of Jennet S. (Withers) Tavenner; 1846-1858, undated; Folder 1 \nSeries 2. Correspondence of William C. Tavenner; 1860-1864; Folder 2 \nSeries 3. Correspondence Regarding Battle of Monocacy and William C. Tavenner's death; 1864; Folder 3 \nSeries 4. Postbellum Correspondence; 1865-1873, 1940; Folder 4 \nSeries 5. Artifact; undated; Folder 5 \nSeries 6. Miscellaneous; undated; 10 fragments, Folder 6","See Also:","A\u0026M 81, Cook, Roy Bird (1886-1961), Collector. Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material \nA\u0026M 858, Cook, Roy Bird (1886-1961), Collector. Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material","This series contains letters between William C. Tavenner's mother Jennet and her father, Colonel Thomas Tavenner, and her siblings, mostly regarding the death of Jennet's husband Cabell Tavenner and the disposal of his property. Mentioned in one of the letters is the steamship Landis, which was part of the Confederate Navy during the Civil War.","This series includes correspondence between William C. Tavenner and his mother, sister, and other family members, mostly concerning Tavenner's military service and the Civil War; and correspondence between Tavenner and members of the Confederate Army. Letters dating between 1860 and 1862 were sent while Tavenner was living in or stationed in New Orleans. Letters between Tavenner and his family discuss the possibility that western Virginia will secede along with other Southern states and Tavenner's willingness to fight. Tavenner also asks for more frequent letters from his family, news from western Virginia, and local newspapers. While in New Orleans he remarks upon railroad transportation, food prices, health conditions, and the mood of residents in their speculation of imminent attack. Military correspondence includes a letter from a Colonel Ferguson (most likely Milton J. Ferguson) informing Tavenner of his election to the position of Lt. Colonel (28 January 1863). An unsigned letter, believed to be in Tavenner's hand, describes skirmishing with Union troops (31 May 1864).","This series contains letters between Tavenner and other members of the Confederate army prior to the Battle of Monocacy, as well as personal correspondence between members of Tavenner's family and those who had witnessed Tavenner's injury and subsequent death. Military correspondence includes a pencil copy of an order from Brigadier General John McCausland, Jr. (4 July 1864) and a list of horses for the use of the 17th Virginia Cavalry (5 July 1864). Personal correspondence includes letters between Tavenner's mother, brother, and other relatives, as well as several letters from James H. Gambrill, who was with Tavenner when he died. Also included in the series is a letter from Lemuel Thomas Foote, a Chaplain in the Union Army who was entrusted with passing a \"wallet\" (or notebook) of Tavenner's onto his family (10 September 1864). The notebook is included with the letter.","This series includes letters between members of the Tavenner family dating after the Civil War regarding miscellaneous financial assets of William C. Tavenner, among other topics. Also includes one letter addressed to Roy Bird Cook regarding the history of the Tavenner family (15 April 1940).","This series contains a lock of William C. Tavenner's hair.","This series includes fragments of letters, notes, envelopes, etc.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Letters of William C. Tavenner and members of his family. The family had ties to Lewis and Harrison Counties. Tavenner's letters include both personal and military correspondence from the Civil War, most relating to his service as a soldier in the Confederate Army (as Lieutenant Colonel of the 17th Virginia Cavalry) and his death at the Battle of Monocacy. There are also letters from other members of Tavenner's family from before and after the Civil War. See \"Scope and Contents\" for details.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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He was stationed in New Orleans during the first years of the war, later moving northward to Virginia sometime between the spring of 1862 and January 1863. He was elected Lieutenant Colonel of the newly formed 17th Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment in January 1863. Tavenner was fatally wounded at the Battle of Monocacy on 9 July 1864. He died of his injuries on 11 July 1863 at the nearby Gambrill Mill, which was used as a field hospital after the battle.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFor more genealogical and historical information regarding the Tavenner family, see: A\u0026amp;M 81; Cook, Roy Bird (1886-1961), Collector. Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material; Folder 1a.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["William Cabell Tavenner was the eldest child of Cabell Tavenner and Jennet S. (Withers) Tavenner. During Tavenner's childhood the family lived in Weston, (West) Virginia. The extended family had ties to Lewis County, Harrison County, and Wood County. Tavenner had three siblings, a younger brother, Thomas Alexander (referred to as \"Tat\" in the letters), and two sisters, Elizabeth M. and Jennet A. (who is often referred to as \"Jen\" in the letters). William Tavenner's paternal grandfather was Colonel Thomas Tavenner, one of the early settlers of Wood county and a prominent man in local affairs. Tavenner's maternal grandfather was Alexander Scott Withers, the author of \"Chronicles of Border Warfare\", an important early history of the settlement of western Virginia. Two of Tavenner's maternal aunts also appear in the collection's correspondence, including Mrs. Mary T. Owen of Galveston, Texas (referred to as \"Poca\" in letters), and Elizabeth Ann Thornhill of New Orleans (referred to as \"Bettie\").","The exact date and circumstances of Tavenner's entry into the military are unknown. He was stationed in New Orleans during the first years of the war, later moving northward to Virginia sometime between the spring of 1862 and January 1863. He was elected Lieutenant Colonel of the newly formed 17th Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment in January 1863. Tavenner was fatally wounded at the Battle of Monocacy on 9 July 1864. He died of his injuries on 11 July 1863 at the nearby Gambrill Mill, which was used as a field hospital after the battle.","For more genealogical and historical information regarding the Tavenner family, see: A\u0026M 81; Cook, Roy Bird (1886-1961), Collector. Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material; Folder 1a."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], William C. 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Letters between Tavenner and his family discuss the possibility that western Virginia will secede along with other Southern states and Tavenner's willingness to fight. Tavenner also asks for more frequent letters from his family, news from western Virginia, and local newspapers. While in New Orleans he remarks upon railroad transportation, food prices, health conditions, and the mood of residents in their speculation of imminent attack. Military correspondence includes a letter from a Colonel Ferguson (most likely Milton J. Ferguson) informing Tavenner of his election to the position of Lt. Colonel (28 January 1863). 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Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material","This series contains letters between William C. Tavenner's mother Jennet and her father, Colonel Thomas Tavenner, and her siblings, mostly regarding the death of Jennet's husband Cabell Tavenner and the disposal of his property. Mentioned in one of the letters is the steamship Landis, which was part of the Confederate Navy during the Civil War.","This series includes correspondence between William C. Tavenner and his mother, sister, and other family members, mostly concerning Tavenner's military service and the Civil War; and correspondence between Tavenner and members of the Confederate Army. Letters dating between 1860 and 1862 were sent while Tavenner was living in or stationed in New Orleans. Letters between Tavenner and his family discuss the possibility that western Virginia will secede along with other Southern states and Tavenner's willingness to fight. Tavenner also asks for more frequent letters from his family, news from western Virginia, and local newspapers. While in New Orleans he remarks upon railroad transportation, food prices, health conditions, and the mood of residents in their speculation of imminent attack. Military correspondence includes a letter from a Colonel Ferguson (most likely Milton J. Ferguson) informing Tavenner of his election to the position of Lt. Colonel (28 January 1863). An unsigned letter, believed to be in Tavenner's hand, describes skirmishing with Union troops (31 May 1864).","This series contains letters between Tavenner and other members of the Confederate army prior to the Battle of Monocacy, as well as personal correspondence between members of Tavenner's family and those who had witnessed Tavenner's injury and subsequent death. Military correspondence includes a pencil copy of an order from Brigadier General John McCausland, Jr. (4 July 1864) and a list of horses for the use of the 17th Virginia Cavalry (5 July 1864). Personal correspondence includes letters between Tavenner's mother, brother, and other relatives, as well as several letters from James H. Gambrill, who was with Tavenner when he died. Also included in the series is a letter from Lemuel Thomas Foote, a Chaplain in the Union Army who was entrusted with passing a \"wallet\" (or notebook) of Tavenner's onto his family (10 September 1864). The notebook is included with the letter.","This series includes letters between members of the Tavenner family dating after the Civil War regarding miscellaneous financial assets of William C. Tavenner, among other topics. Also includes one letter addressed to Roy Bird Cook regarding the history of the Tavenner family (15 April 1940).","This series contains a lock of William C. Tavenner's hair.","This series includes fragments of letters, notes, envelopes, etc."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_f7525dbe984275dd9d63270a15786912\"\u003eLetters of William C. Tavenner and members of his family. The family had ties to Lewis and Harrison Counties. 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Two of Tavenner's maternal aunts also appear in the collection's correspondence, including Mrs. Mary T. Owen of Galveston, Texas (referred to as \"Poca\" in letters), and Elizabeth Ann Thornhill of New Orleans (referred to as \"Bettie\").","The exact date and circumstances of Tavenner's entry into the military are unknown. He was stationed in New Orleans during the first years of the war, later moving northward to Virginia sometime between the spring of 1862 and January 1863. He was elected Lieutenant Colonel of the newly formed 17th Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment in January 1863. Tavenner was fatally wounded at the Battle of Monocacy on 9 July 1864. He died of his injuries on 11 July 1863 at the nearby Gambrill Mill, which was used as a field hospital after the battle.","For more genealogical and historical information regarding the Tavenner family, see: A\u0026M 81; Cook, Roy Bird (1886-1961), Collector. Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material; Folder 1a.","Letters of William C. Tavenner and members of his family. The family had ties to Lewis and Harrison County. Tavenner's letters include both personal and military correspondence from the Civil War, most relating to his service as a soldier in the Confederate Army (as Lieutenant Colonel of the 17th Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment) and his death at the Battle of Monocacy. There are also letters from other members of Tavenner's family from before and after the Civil War.","Series include:","Series 1. Correspondence of Jennet S. (Withers) Tavenner; 1846-1858, undated; Folder 1 \nSeries 2. Correspondence of William C. Tavenner; 1860-1864; Folder 2 \nSeries 3. Correspondence Regarding Battle of Monocacy and William C. Tavenner's death; 1864; Folder 3 \nSeries 4. Postbellum Correspondence; 1865-1873, 1940; Folder 4 \nSeries 5. Artifact; undated; Folder 5 \nSeries 6. 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Letters between Tavenner and his family discuss the possibility that western Virginia will secede along with other Southern states and Tavenner's willingness to fight. Tavenner also asks for more frequent letters from his family, news from western Virginia, and local newspapers. While in New Orleans he remarks upon railroad transportation, food prices, health conditions, and the mood of residents in their speculation of imminent attack. Military correspondence includes a letter from a Colonel Ferguson (most likely Milton J. Ferguson) informing Tavenner of his election to the position of Lt. Colonel (28 January 1863). An unsigned letter, believed to be in Tavenner's hand, describes skirmishing with Union troops (31 May 1864).","This series contains letters between Tavenner and other members of the Confederate army prior to the Battle of Monocacy, as well as personal correspondence between members of Tavenner's family and those who had witnessed Tavenner's injury and subsequent death. Military correspondence includes a pencil copy of an order from Brigadier General John McCausland, Jr. (4 July 1864) and a list of horses for the use of the 17th Virginia Cavalry (5 July 1864). Personal correspondence includes letters between Tavenner's mother, brother, and other relatives, as well as several letters from James H. Gambrill, who was with Tavenner when he died. Also included in the series is a letter from Lemuel Thomas Foote, a Chaplain in the Union Army who was entrusted with passing a \"wallet\" (or notebook) of Tavenner's onto his family (10 September 1864). The notebook is included with the letter.","This series includes letters between members of the Tavenner family dating after the Civil War regarding miscellaneous financial assets of William C. Tavenner, among other topics. Also includes one letter addressed to Roy Bird Cook regarding the history of the Tavenner family (15 April 1940).","This series contains a lock of William C. 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He was stationed in New Orleans during the first years of the war, later moving northward to Virginia sometime between the spring of 1862 and January 1863. He was elected Lieutenant Colonel of the newly formed 17th Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment in January 1863. Tavenner was fatally wounded at the Battle of Monocacy on 9 July 1864. He died of his injuries on 11 July 1863 at the nearby Gambrill Mill, which was used as a field hospital after the battle.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFor more genealogical and historical information regarding the Tavenner family, see: A\u0026amp;M 81; Cook, Roy Bird (1886-1961), Collector. Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material; Folder 1a.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["William Cabell Tavenner was the eldest child of Cabell Tavenner and Jennet S. (Withers) Tavenner. During Tavenner's childhood the family lived in Weston, (West) Virginia. 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He was stationed in New Orleans during the first years of the war, later moving northward to Virginia sometime between the spring of 1862 and January 1863. He was elected Lieutenant Colonel of the newly formed 17th Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment in January 1863. Tavenner was fatally wounded at the Battle of Monocacy on 9 July 1864. He died of his injuries on 11 July 1863 at the nearby Gambrill Mill, which was used as a field hospital after the battle.","For more genealogical and historical information regarding the Tavenner family, see: A\u0026M 81; Cook, Roy Bird (1886-1961), Collector. Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material; Folder 1a."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], William C. 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Letters between Tavenner and his family discuss the possibility that western Virginia will secede along with other Southern states and Tavenner's willingness to fight. Tavenner also asks for more frequent letters from his family, news from western Virginia, and local newspapers. While in New Orleans he remarks upon railroad transportation, food prices, health conditions, and the mood of residents in their speculation of imminent attack. Military correspondence includes a letter from a Colonel Ferguson (most likely Milton J. Ferguson) informing Tavenner of his election to the position of Lt. Colonel (28 January 1863). 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The notebook is included with the letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes letters between members of the Tavenner family dating after the Civil War regarding miscellaneous financial assets of William C. Tavenner, among other topics. Also includes one letter addressed to Roy Bird Cook regarding the history of the Tavenner family (15 April 1940).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains a lock of William C. Tavenner's hair.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes fragments of letters, notes, envelopes, etc.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Letters of William C. Tavenner and members of his family. The family had ties to Lewis and Harrison County. 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Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material","This series contains letters between William C. Tavenner's mother Jennet and her father, Colonel Thomas Tavenner, and her siblings, mostly regarding the death of Jennet's husband Cabell Tavenner and the disposal of his property. Mentioned in one of the letters is the steamship Landis, which was part of the Confederate Navy during the Civil War.","This series includes correspondence between William C. Tavenner and his mother, sister, and other family members, mostly concerning Tavenner's military service and the Civil War; and correspondence between Tavenner and members of the Confederate Army. Letters dating between 1860 and 1862 were sent while Tavenner was living in or stationed in New Orleans. Letters between Tavenner and his family discuss the possibility that western Virginia will secede along with other Southern states and Tavenner's willingness to fight. Tavenner also asks for more frequent letters from his family, news from western Virginia, and local newspapers. While in New Orleans he remarks upon railroad transportation, food prices, health conditions, and the mood of residents in their speculation of imminent attack. Military correspondence includes a letter from a Colonel Ferguson (most likely Milton J. Ferguson) informing Tavenner of his election to the position of Lt. Colonel (28 January 1863). An unsigned letter, believed to be in Tavenner's hand, describes skirmishing with Union troops (31 May 1864).","This series contains letters between Tavenner and other members of the Confederate army prior to the Battle of Monocacy, as well as personal correspondence between members of Tavenner's family and those who had witnessed Tavenner's injury and subsequent death. Military correspondence includes a pencil copy of an order from Brigadier General John McCausland, Jr. (4 July 1864) and a list of horses for the use of the 17th Virginia Cavalry (5 July 1864). Personal correspondence includes letters between Tavenner's mother, brother, and other relatives, as well as several letters from James H. Gambrill, who was with Tavenner when he died. Also included in the series is a letter from Lemuel Thomas Foote, a Chaplain in the Union Army who was entrusted with passing a \"wallet\" (or notebook) of Tavenner's onto his family (10 September 1864). The notebook is included with the letter.","This series includes letters between members of the Tavenner family dating after the Civil War regarding miscellaneous financial assets of William C. Tavenner, among other topics. Also includes one letter addressed to Roy Bird Cook regarding the history of the Tavenner family (15 April 1940).","This series contains a lock of William C. Tavenner's hair.","This series includes fragments of letters, notes, envelopes, etc."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_f7525dbe984275dd9d63270a15786912\"\u003eLetters of William C. Tavenner and members of his family. The family had ties to Lewis and Harrison Counties. 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Barns, Collector, Papers","West Virginia -- Politics and government","West Virginia -- History","Pennsylvania -- History","Pacifism -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends","Agriculture  ","Agriculture   -- West Virginia","Socialism","Economic history -- United States","Labor","West Virginia University  -- History","West Virginia University  -- Students","Requires signed form, since special access restriction applies.","All or part of this collection is stored offsite. Please make an appointment prior to visiting.","Student papers can only be accessed with the permission of a curator.","Dr. William D. Barns (1917-1991) was a professor of history at West Virginia University from 1940 1985. His fields of specialization were American agriculture and labor history, West Virginia and regional history, American economic history, and the United States since 1860. He received his undergraduate and masters degree from Penn State in 1939 and 1940 respectively, and his Ph.D. in History from West Virginia University in 1947. He was involved with several national and state organizations throughout his career, including the American Association of University Professors, the West Virginia Historical Society, and the West Virginia Academy of Science.","processing; 2013/05/02; jcm","\nAdded a box of materials that were pulled out of Barns' books (box 116). Changed the extent from 343 ft. to 343 ft. 5 in. Also updated the contents list excel spreadsheet.","\n--","\n!!scanning; 2013/05/02; jcm","\nBox 116, folder 1 contains photos/photo postcards that could be reviewed for inclusion in WVHOV.","\n--","\ngeneral; 2013/06/02; mt","\nThe extent is now correct. It was part of the most recent Extent Project(Extent Project 7 2014/02/19).","\n--","\nmissing; 2013/06/02; mt","\nThe following boxes were not found when we labeled the boxes several years ago: 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 169, 239, and 284.","\n--","\nlocation; 2013/06/02; mt","\nThe boxes containing serials/books/periodicals were stored on the 4th floor. The boxes were unpacked and moved to the 2nd floor and 3rd floor (Summer 2013 and Winter 2013). And then the materials on the 3rd floor were moved to the 2nd floor (Spring 2014). I think most of the Barns stuff is behind the locked door on the 2nd floor. But there may also be books/serials from this collection in with the unprocessed books on the elevator side of the 2nd floor.","\n--","archives and manuscripts; books and periodicals; pamphlets; photographs / postcards / prints / etc.","The material has been divided into three main sections of archives, books, and periodicals, and described to the box level. The contents of this collection were created or collected by Dr. William D. Barns and Mrs. Doretha Barns from the 1920s to 1995. The majority of the material pertains to the academic career of Dr. Barns. Mrs. Barns continued to collect material until 1995. Two large series that relate specifically to Mrs. Barns are the League of Women Voters and Mrs. Doretha Barns. In addition, she contributed to the series on the Federal Government, Miscellaneous, Pacifism, and Society of Friends.","\nThe archival material in the collection reflects the personal and professional interests of Dr. Barns. Significant series related to his personal interests include the Morgantown \"Society of Friends\" meeting house; \"Pacifism\"; \"Newspaper Clippings\" of local, state, and national events; and \"West Virginia Government.\" Large series related to his professional career include \"West Virginia University\"; \"Professional Career\" (which includes his research notes, articles, and the book he wrote); \"Professional Organizations\" (which he participated in); and material on the \"West Virginia and National Grange.\"","\nArchival material also includes papers of T.C. Atkeson, known for being the national spokesman of the Grange in Washington D.C., 1919-1927. He was born in Putnam County in 1852, in the town of Buffalo, West Virginia. He was dean of the College of Agriculture at WVU from 1897 to 1910, and served as the WV State Grange master for twenty-one years. These papers include correspondence, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, certificates, etc. documenting speeches to Congress, history of the Grange, the WV Grange, among other topics.","\nThe books in the collection include American and West Virginia history books, agriculture books, and many early edition novels. The periodicals are a mixture of academic journals such as  Journal of American Historians  and  West Virginia History ; research periodicals such as the  Pennsylvania Farmer , the  Grange Monthly , and the  Farm Journal ; and periodicals of personal interest to Dr. Barns such as the  Link and Maclean's .","This series includes brochures, newsletters, pamphlets and other misc. printed material from national and West Virginia offices of the ACLU.","This series includes booklets, pamphlets, etc. about national agriculture. All West Virginia agricultural material is in Series 35. West Virginia-History.","This series includes booklets, pamphlets, and rolled material about the Civil War, Revolutionary War, the National Archives and Records Service, and book series \"The Middle Period of American History,\" by Oliver P. Chitwood, etc.","The material in this series pertains to Thomas Clark Atkeson (1852-1935), born in Buffalo, Putnam County WV. Atkeson served as the Dean of the College of Agriculture at West Virginia University (1897-1910), State Grange master for 21 years, and national spokesman for the Grange in Washington D.C. (1919-1927).","This series includes correspondence, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, booklets, certificates, copies of \"West Virginia Agriculturalist\" journal he published. Topics include speeches to congress, history of the Grange, the West Virginia Grange, etc. ","This series consists of solicitation booklets and pamphlets for text books and other reading material.","This series includes maps, brochures, booklets, event programs, and vacation pamphlets, etc., related to Canada. The majority of this material is related to Toronto, Hamilton, and Ontario.","This series consists of Barns's personal and professional correspondence.","This series includes plaques/honors received, framed diplomas, West Virginia Grange certificates, framed organization certificates, cloth, souvenirs from travel, etc..","This series includes newsletters, brochures, reports, and booklets published by federal government agencies, including the Congressional Record, congressional directories, Dept. of Commerce documents, and Subcommittee on Foreign Relations.","This series includes booklets, pamphlets, etc., documenting primarily the Middle East and Western Europe.","This series consists of small notebooks and diaries of daily work and contacts. It also includes notebooks that track time and expenses of specific projects.","This series includes printed material from the League of Women Voters organization, both national and WV material, including minutes from meetings, lists of LWV members, WV newsletter, newspaper clippings, and memorandums. Some of the articles Mrs. Barns wrote and her research materials are included.","This series consists of material collected and written by Mrs. Barns concerning national and international trade in West Virginia, including state and federal statistical reports, her notes, and papers she wrote.","This series includes folded maps and bound atlases of the United States (boxes 83-87) and also railroad maps, bus time tables, misc. time tables, etc. (box 88).","This series includes booklets, student catalogs, school directories, etc., from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Barns was a summer exchange professor at McMaster in 1957, 1959, and 1961.","This series includes pamphlets, booklets, brochures, etc. on nuclear build-ups, the military draft, conscription, and military spending.","This series includes calendars, pamphlets, booklets, brochures, business cards, miscellaneous unsorted mail, etc. (boxes 94a-115). Topics include home improvement material, sewing tips, receipts, how to choose a camera, hospital records, electric company information, income tax information, meet the press transcripts, annual reports from major corporations,  etc.","Boxes 116a-116c include photos, photo postcards, correspondence, clippings, ephemera, and other material removed from books in the collection.","This series consists of personal correspondence, articles Doretha Barnes wrote, papers she wrote while a student in college, and material documenting her run for the West Virginia House of Delegates in the 1960s.","This series includes annual conference programs dating back to the early 1900s, printed booklets, leaflets, pamphlets, songbooks, Grange newspapers, and correspondence between Dr. Barns and the Grange Association. Materials specific to West Virginia were moved to Series 37. West Virginia-Grange History.","This series includes folders on specific topics Dr. Barns followed in the media such as militarism, students, nuclear arms race, etc.. It also folders marked research leads. The majority of the boxes in this series contain miscellaneous unsorted clippings.","This series includes a West Virginia University law school review and several copies of the 100th anniversary edition of the Morgantown Dominion Post.","This series consists of a publication about race relations that switched to a magazine style format in 1949.","This series includes pamphlets, booklets, leaflets, and clippings, etc. documenting conciencious objectors, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the National Council for the Prevention of War, etc..","This series includes booklets, statistical surveys, tourist publications, general and regional histories, etc., related to Pennsylvania.","This series includes photographs of personal family members, Morgantown and West Virginia University, and two glass plate negatives. The microfilm in this series consists of one roll related to the proceedings of the Maryland Grange (1911-1915). The tapes in this series are productions of speeches by foundations outside WV. The video tapes are about politics and speeches given during the Benedum Lecture Series.","This series contains an autobiographical outline of Barns's professional career, research notes, articles he wrote, speeches he gave, and copies of his book on Grange history.","This series includes minutes, correspondence, newsletters, etc., from organizations he belonged to or received material from. Organizations include the West Virginia Historical Society, American Association of University Professors, and the West Virginia Archeological Society, etc..","This series includes one scrapbook of congratulation letters on Barns's retirement in March 1985, one on Canada, and two books of miscellaneoous newspaper clippings.","This series consists of Journal of History special editions on specific topics related to history.","This series includes booklets, pamphlets, newspapers, newsletters, etc. from socialist organizations.","This series includes letters from other meeting groups, items about the local meeting house in Morgantown, and several of the national publications, including literature about the Quaker lifestyle, newsletters, and colleges sponsored by the Society of Friends.","This series includes newsletters produced by the United Nations (UN) and newsletters from other organizations concerning the UN, newspaper clippings, and booklets of reports issued by the UN.","This series Contains publications from universities other than West Virginia University or McMaster University, such as Penn State University, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, and the University of Pittsburgh.","This series includes AAA travel books, maps, brochures, and pamphlets about various sites around the United States of America.","This series includes the Journal of the House of Delegates, copies of the West Virginia constitution, bills and legislative measures, economic impact studies, booklets explaining the role of the WV state government and government offices, booklets listing the House of Delegates appointments in the WV legislature, etc..","This series includes rosters of granges in West Virginia, bulletins, a hard copy edition of Dr. Barns's 1973 book, booklets from various state meetings, etc..","This series includes material related to agriculture in West Virginia, publications by WV authors, three cities booklets, statistical handbooks, political almanacs, and local and regional histories.","This series consists of solicitations from the West Virginia University Alumni Center and the alumni newsletter.","This series includes booklets, forms, programs, etc. on the history of the organization, proceedings of annual meetings, membership applications, etc..","This series consists of university catalogs of undergraduate and graduate class schedules.","This series includes primarily multiple copies of test questions and some notes for class discussion.","This series includes publications, newspaper clippings, notes, etc. regarding people and events related to West Virginia University.","This series includes papers, dissertations, student magazines, completed tests by Barns's students, gradebooks, notes on meetings with students, etc..","This series includes material such as faculty senate minutes, memos from the history department and university library, university wide memos, and printed material about the university.","Fifteen copies of the Monticola, West Virginia University yearbook, separated to A\u0026M 5025 (1971-1984, 1986, 1992 (in boxes 40-41).","\n--","\nWilliam D. Barns Collection books designated for Rare Book Room:","\nAllen, Lewis F. American Cattle: Their History, Breeding and Management. Revised. New York: O. Judd Co., 1887. Bluish green cloth, gilt stamped cow on front cover and decorative title and author in gilt on spine. Bookplate removed.","\nAmerican Wit and Humor. Vol. 1. Philadelphia: Georg W. Jacobs, 1900. Bright and clean navy blue cloth cover, with gilt embossed title and boxed design of six ears of corn on cornstalks.","\nAshby, N. B. The Riddle of the Sphinx: A Discussion of the Economic Questions Relating to Agriculture, land, Transportation, Money, Taxation, and Cost of Interchange. Des Moines, Iowa: Industrial Publishing Co., 1890. Rough-grained maroon cloth. Black embossed borders and corner decorations on front. Gilt stamped sphinx and pyramid on front cover. Gilt lettering and black design on spine. Floral endpapers.","\nAtherton, Gertrude. California: An Intimate History. New York: Harper, 1914. First edition with K-O on copyright page. Decorative cover, no dust jacket.","\nAtkeson, Thomas Clark. A Catechism of Agriculture: Illustrated. New York: Orange Judd, 1913. Chocolate brown grain cloth. Embossed design at top and bottom of covers. Title and author stamped in white in box on front cover and on spine. Very, very fine condition.","\nAtkeson, Thomas Clark. Semi-Centennial History of the Patrons of Husbandry. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1915. Chocolate brown cloth, with gilt embossed lettering on front cover and spine. Minor wear at bottom corners and bottom of spine, otherwise like-new copy of book by a West Virginia author.","\nAtkeson, Thomas Clark. Semi-Centennial History of the Patrons of Husbandry. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1915. Chocolate brown cloth, with gilt embossed lettering on front cover and spine. Stained all around edges of front cover and entire spine, book by a West Virginia author.","\nBailey, L. H. The Horticulturist's Rule Book: A Compendium of Useful Information for Fruit-Growers, Truck-Gardeners, Florists and Others; Completed to the Beginning of the Year 1892. 2nd edition, revised. New York: Rural Publishing Company, 1892. Deep brown grain cloth cover, with embossed decoration at top and bottom of front cover. Gold stamped title, vine, watering can, hoe, and rake.","\nBlackmore, R. D. Lorna Doone, A Novel. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, [date not stated, circa 1900]. White half-paper decorated in gilt-highlighted violets; white cloth spine elaborately decorated in gilt title, author, publisher, and floral designs; all three edges gilt; corners and fore-edge of paper cover chipped.","\nBridgeman, Thomas. The American Gardener's Assistant, In Three Parts: Containing Complete Practical Directions for the Cultivation of Vegetables, Flowers, Fruit Trees, and Grape-Vines. New edition revised, enlarged, and illustrated by S. Edwards Todd. Philadelphia: Porter \u0026 Coates, 1866. Smooth-grained brown cloth. Black embossed borders with decorations on front cover, blind embossed on back cover. Gilt stamped wreath on front cover. Gold stamped agricultural tools and watering can, with black and gold decorations and gold lettering, on spine.","\nBuck, Pearl S. Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul. New York: Triangle Books, 1939, reprinted April 1940. Hard cover, light blue faded by water spots, dust jacket in good condition. Owner's bookplate.","\nBuck, Solon J. The Agrarian Crusade: A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920. Volume 45: The Chronicles of America Series. Extra-Illustrated edition. Smooth-grained maroon cloth cover. Borders, title, and author in gold on cover and spine. Highly ornate tablet in gold with white and black eagle and four open books on front cover. Gold decoration with open book on spine.","\nButler, Frederick. The farmer's manual : being a plain practical treatise on the art of husbandry, designed to promote an acquaintance with the modern improvements in agriculture, together with remarks on gardening, and a treatise on the management of bees. Weathersfield [Conn.]: Published by the author, 1821. Lacks covers. Title page partially missing and stained. Extremely fragile.","\nCachia, Anthony J. Libya under the Second Ottoman Occupation (1835-1911). Tripoli: Government Press, 1945. Signed by author and by Howard J. Forbes, previous owner.","\nCobb, Irvin S. Roughing It De Luxe. Illustrated by John T. McCutcheon. New York: George H. Doran, 1914. Violet brown cloth. Title and author in gilt on front cover and spine. Black and white label at top of front cover picturing Santa Fe railway train with man perched atop the steam locomotive.","\nCobleigh, Rolfe. Handy farm Devices and How to Make Them. (Farm Life Series) New York: Orange Judd Company, 1910. Olive green cloth cover, with black title, author, series, borders, and wheat designs stamped.","\nConnor, Ralph. The Major. New York: George H. Doran, 1917. Bright and clean blue cloth cover, with embossed raised figure of a soldier and raised gilt title.","\nConnor, Ralph. The Man From Glengarry: A Tale of the Ottawa. Special edition limited to 50,000 copies. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1901. Rust brown cloth cover. Title and author in black on front cover and spine. Tan outline of man standing on logs in a tree-lined river, with tan and black sky in background.","\nConnor, Ralph. The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land. New York: George H. Doran, 1919. Dark blue cloth. Four blind-embossed soldiers and leafless tree on front cover, with title, author, and flames in orange.","\nConnor, Ralph. The Sky Pilot: A Tale of the Foothills. Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, 1901. Dark tan cloth. Title and author in red on cover and spine. Standing man with sombrero and ammunition belt in navy blue on cover.","\nde Valette, Marc. La Methode Directe pour L'Enseignement des Langues Vivantes a l'aide des Tableaux Auxiliaires. Deuxieme livre. Deuxieme edition. Edinburgh: Printed at the Ballantyne Press, [1910?]. Dark green cloth, gilt stamped title on cover and spine, gilt stamped decorative design of a sower in front of rising sun, fleur de lis embossed rows at top and bottom of front cover.","\nDecorum: A Practical Treatise on Etiquette \u0026 Dress of the Best American Society, 1879. With illustrations and captions from Hill's Manual of Business and Social Forms. Westvaco Corporation, 1979. Clean and bright red-orange cloth covers, in decorative slip case.","\nDickens, Charles. Bleak House. New York: Mershon Company, [1890s-1900s?] Maroon cloth. Blind stamped with designs of three elaborate hinges on front and back covers.","\nEllsworth, Henry W. The American Swine Breeder: A Practical Treatise on the Selection, Rearing and Fattening of Swine. Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Company; Philadelphia: Hogan and Thompson, 1840. Brown cloth grain cover, with embossed design and gilt stamped spine.","\nFarjeon, Eleanor, and Herbert Farjeon. Kings and Queens. Illustrated by Rosalind Thornycroft. New York: E.P. Dutton, [no date]. Clean and bright paper cover with colored illustration of a king and a queen surrounded by red draperies, same design in same colors on dust jacket.","\nFarm Conveniences: A Practical Hand-Book for the Farm. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1884. Profusely illustrated. Olive green cloth with title and sickle stamped in gold on front cover and title and farming tools in gold on spine. Black lined tools and wheat on front cover. Bookplate of the Library of the West Virginia Experiment Station inside front cover. Decorative end papers.","\nFarm Implement News Buyer's Guide: Where to Purchase Farm Implements, Machines and Vehicles. Vol. III. Chicago: Farm Implement News Company, 1891. Numerous illustrations of farm machinery throughout, and advertising on endpapers. Olive green cloth cover, with title, publisher, and advertising stamped in black.","\nFox, John, Jr. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1906. Bright and clean burgundy cloth cover, with embossed white title.","\nFullerton, Edith Loring. How to Make a Vegetable Garden: A Practical and Suggestive Manual for the Home Garden. Illustrated by H. B. Fullerton. New York: Doubleday, Page \u0026 Co., 1905. Light green cloth, with title and borders in black. Front cover with photograph label of woman tilling a garden.","\nHale, Philip H. The Book of Live Stock Champions, Being an Artistic Souvenir Supplement of the Monthly National Farmer and Stock Grower. St. Louis: Philip Henry Hale, 1912. Bright blue cloth cover, gilt border and lettering on front. Like new condition.","\nHalevy, Ludovic. The Abbe Constantin. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, [date not stated, circa 1900]. Cloth covers with pink background, silver title, floral design with silver stems and green leaves, formed into wreath on front cover, soiled, worn at spine top and bottom; decorative half title and title pages.","\nHarris, Joseph. Talks on Manures: A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks. New and Enlarged edition. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1902. Chocolate brown cloth cover, embossed with designs. Gilt stamped shovel and pitchfork on front cover.","\nHarvey, William Hope. The Remedy. Chicago: Mundus Publishing Co., 1915. Marron cloth. Like new condition of a rarely seen book written by a West Virginia author, inscribed by author.","\nHello Bill! A Book of After Dinner Stories. New York: H. M. Caldwell, 1911. Bright and clean purple cloth cover, with white title, clock, and antlered deer.","\nHenderson, Peter. Gardening for Profit: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of the Market and Family Garden. New and enlarged edition. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1884. Green cloth, embossed with designs, bright gilt cabbage on front cover, gilt stamped title and publisher on spine. Clean with minimal wear and several small spots on cover.","\nHenderson, Peter. Gardening for Profit: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of the Market and Family Garden. New and enlarged edition. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1874. Green cloth, embossed with designs, gilt cabbage on front cover, gilt stamped title and publisher on spine. Worn, soiled and stained, but sound.","\nHenderson, Peter. Practical Floriculture: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of Florist's Plants, for the Amateur and Professional Florist. New and enlarged edition. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1897. Green cloth. Embossed design and gilt stamped title on front cover. Gilt stamped title, author, and publisher names on spine. Floral end papers.","\nHough, Emerson. Fifty-four Forty or Fight. With illustrations by Arthur I. Keller. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1909. Bright and clean dark olive green cloth cover, with embossed geometrical designs and yellow title background.","\nKelley, O. H. Origin and Progress of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry in the United States; A History from 1863 to 1873. Philadelphia: J. A. Wagenseller, 1875. Title, author, and sickle gold stamped on spine.","\nLongfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, [date not stated, circa 1900]. Gray-brown cloth, orange \"L\" within wreath, acorn and orange oak leaf design on spine and five on front cover, black embossed title and author. Soiled and foxed.","\nLucas, Daniel B., and J. Fairfax McLaughlin. Fisher Ames-Henry Clay, etc. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1891. West Virginia author, sound text, and clean black cloth cover.","\nMartin, Edward Winslow. History of the Grange Movement; or, The Farmer's War Against Monopolies: being... a History of the Rise and Progress of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry... Philadelphia: National Publishing Co., 1873. Leather cover, embossed borders, black and gold title label on spine, marbled end papers.","\nMichel, Louise. La Commune. Bibliotheque Sociologique. 8th edition. Paris: Librarie P. V. Stock, 1921. Paper wrappers.","\nMontgomery, E. G. Productive Farm Crops. (Lippincott's Farm Manuals) Philadelphia: J.B Lippincott Company, 1918. Dark tan cloth, decorated in green lettering and vegetable vignettes, with orange background. Lightly marbled edges. Condition very fine, but interior foxed.","\nMorrell, L. A. The American Shepherd: Being a History of the Sheep, with their Breeds, Management, and Diseases. ... New York: Harper \u0026 Brothers, 1845. Brown cloth cover, embossed with a pattern and a blind-embossed design of a circle with arrows protruding from top and bottom.","\nNolan, Aretas W. One Hundred lessons in Elementary Agriculture. Morgantown, WV: Acme Publishing Co., 1908. Dark brown cloth. Like new condition of a rarely seen book published in Morgantown.","\nOrr, James L. The National Grange Choir, Published by the Executive Committee of the National Grange, for use in the Granges of the United States. Philadelphia: Printed by J. A. Wagenseller, 1883. Oblong shaped book, music scores and lyrics.","\nOur Homes: How to Beautify Them. New York: O. Judd Co., 1887. Blue green cloth, with embossed border design. Gilt stamped spine with title, publisher, peacock feathers, flowers, and leaves.","\nPackard, S. S., and H. B. Bryant. The New Bryant and Stratton Common School Book-Keeping: Embracing Single and Double Entry. ... New York: American Book Company, 1878. Grey-taupe cloth cover, deeply embossed with elaborate designs, black stamped on front cover and blind on back. Includes publisher's symbol black embossed in center of front cover. Condition very fine.","\nRandall, Henry S. The Practical Shepherd: A Complete Treatise on the Breeding, Management and Diseases of Sheep. Nineteenth edition. Rochester, NY: D.D.T. Moore, 1864. Deep green cloth, blind embossed designs, embossed gilt stamped sheep on front cover, blind embossed sheep on back cover, gilt lettering and sheep on spine.","\nRandall, Henry S. The Practical Shepherd: A Complete Treatise on the Breeding, Management and Diseases of Sheep. Thirty-first edition. New York: The American News Company, 1863. Brown-orange cloth, embossed designs in black, bright gilt stamped sheep on cover, and black and gilt lettering on spine. Bumped corners, soiled spine, otherwise very nice condition.","\nRead, John E. Farming for Profit: A Hand-Book for the American Farmer. Philadelphia: P. W. Ziegler, 1882, c1880. Elaborately illustrated front cover, black embossed images of tools, crops, livestock, poultry, horse drawn carriage, basket, and gilt stamped title, plow, and basket. Same image on back but lacking gold. Spine similarly illustrated with cow's head and farming machinery.","\nRevell, Nellie. The Funny Side Out: After, Before and During Dinner Stories with Apologies to Whoever First Told Them. New York: George H. Doran, 1925. Red cloth with black lettering and design. Multiple figures, men and women, each occupying a diamond in a latticework design. Cover signed IRB (?).","\nRiley, James Whitcomb. Riley Farm-Rhymes. With country pictures by Will Vawter. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1905. Pink-orange cloth. Title and author on cover brown outlined in black. Spine includes ear of corn, with kernels in brown. Worm holes aligned with hinge between front cover and spine.","\nRobinson, Rowland E. Uncle Lisha's Shop and a Danvis Pioneer. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1933. Elaborate stamped turtle shell pattern on deep green cloth. Also gilt stamped pine branch and author's name on front cover. Gilt stamped lettering on spine. Very fine condition.","\nRoot, A. I., and E. R. Root. The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture.: A Cyclopedia of Everything Pertaining to the Care of the Honey-bee ... Medina, Ohio: The A. I. Root Company, 1910. Black cloth cover, blind embossed with title on front and back, and gold stamped 2.5 inch bee on front cover. Floral endpapers.","\nRowlands, Walter. Among the Great Masters of Painting: Scenes in the Lives of Famous Painters. Boston: Dana Estes, 1901. Clean and bright white cloth cover, with embossed gilt title, columns, and artist's palette.","\nRUS : A Biographical Register of Rural Leadership in the United States and Canada. Compiled by L.H. Bailey and Ethel Zoe Bailey. \"Fourth issue.\" Ithaca, NY, 1930. Tan cloth with black title, date, four stars, and design of scythes and sickles.","\nRus: A Biographical Register of Rural Leadership in the United States and Canada. Compiled by L. H. Bailey and Ethel Zoe Bailey. Ithaca, N.Y., 1925. \"Rus\" is Latin for \"the country.\" Decorative cloth cover.","\nScott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe, A Romance. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, [date not stated, circa 1900]. Light green cloth, clean, with multi-colored depiction of jousting knights with castle and trees in background. Author's name in black, and title in yellow-orange, outlined in black. Sword and crossed lances on spine.","\nSheppard, Muriel Earley. Cloud by Day: A Story of Coal and Coke and People. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1947. Bright and clean black cloth cover, with pictorial dust jacket.","\nStephens, C. A. Haps and Mishaps at the Old Farm. Norway, Maine: The Old Squire's Bookstore, 1925. Deep brown cloth with red lettering and maroon lines. With illustrated end papers and frontispiece.","\nStephens, C. A. My Folks in Maine. Norway, Maine: The Old Squire's Bookstore, 1934. Tan cloth with light tan lettering and lines. With illustrated end papers and frontispiece.","\nStephens, C. A. Katahdin Camps. Norway, Maine: The Old Squire's Bookstore, 1928. With illustrations by Jacob Bates Abbott. Mossy green cloth with dark green lettering and lines. Illustrated end papers.","\nStiles, Kent B. Stamps: An Outline of Philately. Illustrated by numerous photographs. New York: Harper \u0026 Brothers, 1929. Third printing. Bright orange cloth, with black lettering, very modest wear and soil.","\nStuart, Jesse. The Thread that Runs so True. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. Rust brown cloth in very fine condition. Signed by author. Dust jacket with title: The Thread That Runs so True: A Mountain School-teacher Tells His Story.","\nTarkington, Booth. Beasley's Christmas Party. Illustrated by Ruth Sypherd Clements. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1909. Title page and numerous illustrations in color. Deep red cloth. Blind embossed design of holly leaves and berries on front cover. Title and author lettering gilt stamped on front cover and spine.","\nTarkington, Booth. The Conquest of Canaan: A Novel. Illustrations by Lucius W. Hitchcock. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1905. Red-orange cloth. Gold stamped title and spine with decorative frame incorporating leaves and flowers.","\nTarkington, Booth. The Midlander. Garden City: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1924. Olive green cloth, with author, title, and frame stamped in gold. Dust jacket includes artist's cityscape on front, photo portrait of Tarkington on back, and list on the inside of publisher's other fiction books.","\nTerry, T. B. Our Farming; or, How We have Made a Run-down Farm Bring Both Profit and Pleasure; Potato, Wheat, and Clover Culture, Tillage, Tile Drainage, Manure Saving, etc., etc.; Treated Independently from A to Z. Philadelphia: The Farmer Company, 1893. Maroon cloth. Title stamped in gold on cover and spine. Some internal foxing.","\nThe Arabian Nights. Orton Lowe, editor. Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 1924. Red cloth cover, with full size paper label on front cover bearing title and colored illustration of scene from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Illustrated end papers. Sixty illustrations. With colored plates by Adelaide H. Bolton.","\nThe Baptist Hymnal (Abridged) for Use in the Church and Home. W. Howard Doane, musical editor. E.H. Johnson, associate editor. Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1883. Stamped on front and back paste-down end papers: Property of Beth-Eden Baptist Church, Allegheny, Pa. Hard cover.","\nThe Chautauqua Collection (Choruses and Part-Songs). Compiled by Arthur Hallam. Cincinnati: The John Church Company, 1915. Deep green cloth with black stamped title.","\nThomas, John J. The American Fruit Culturist: Containing Practical Directions for the Propagation and Culture of all Fruits Adapted to the United States. 21st edition, revised and enlarged by William H. S. Wood. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1920. Green cloth cover, with gold stamped raspberries on front.","\nVan Dyke, Henry. The Blue Flower. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1902. Multi-color cover design, signed within design by Margaret Armstrong.","\nVerne, Jules. The Lighthouse at the End of the World. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1924. Tan cloth with embossed green title, author, and full-rigged ship within frame, in very fine condtion. Dust jacket with colored illustration of ship and lighthouse.","\nWhite, William Allen. A Certain Rich Man. New York: Macmillan, 1909. Green cloth. Title set in gold framed rectangle, sheaves of wheat in gold on cover and spine, author's name in gold.","\nWillson, Marcius. Outlines of History: Illustrated by numerous [G]eographical and Historical Notes and Maps embracing Part I. Ancient History Part II. Modern History. School edition. New York: Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman \u0026 Co., 1868. Dark brown cloth blind embossed with border design and logo of publisher. Black leather spine with gilt stamped title.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Dr. William D. Barns (1917-1991) was a professor of history at West Virginia University from 1940 to 1985. His fields of specialization were American agriculture and labor history, West Virginia and regional history, American economic history, and the United States since 1860. The material has been divided into three main sections of archives, books, and periodicals, and described to the box level. The contents of this collection were created or collected by Dr. William D. Barns and Mrs. Doretha Barns from the 1920s to 1995. The majority of the material pertains to the academic career of Dr. Barns. Mrs. Barns continued to collect material until 1995. Two large series that relate specifically to Mrs. Barns are the League of Women Voters and Mrs. Doretha Barns. In addition, she contributed to the series on the Federal Government, Miscellaneous, Pacifism, and Society of Friends.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/","West Virginia and Regional History Center","League of Women Voters (U.S.)","League of Women Voters (U.S.). Morgantown-Monongalia Branch","Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Morgantown Friends Meeting","West Virginia University. 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He was born in Putnam County in 1852, in the town of Buffalo, West Virginia. He was dean of the College of Agriculture at WVU from 1897 to 1910, and served as the WV State Grange master for twenty-one years. These papers include correspondence, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, certificates, etc. documenting speeches to Congress, history of the Grange, the WV Grange, among other topics.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe books in the collection include American and West Virginia history books, agriculture books, and many early edition novels. 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West Virginia-History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes booklets, pamphlets, and rolled material about the Civil War, Revolutionary War, the National Archives and Records Service, and book series \"The Middle Period of American History,\" by Oliver P. Chitwood, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe material in this series pertains to Thomas Clark Atkeson (1852-1935), born in Buffalo, Putnam County WV. Atkeson served as the Dean of the College of Agriculture at West Virginia University (1897-1910), State Grange master for 21 years, and national spokesman for the Grange in Washington D.C. (1919-1927).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes correspondence, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, booklets, certificates, copies of \"West Virginia Agriculturalist\" journal he published. Topics include speeches to congress, history of the Grange, the West Virginia Grange, etc. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of solicitation booklets and pamphlets for text books and other reading material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes maps, brochures, booklets, event programs, and vacation pamphlets, etc., related to Canada. The majority of this material is related to Toronto, Hamilton, and Ontario.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of Barns's personal and professional correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes plaques/honors received, framed diplomas, West Virginia Grange certificates, framed organization certificates, cloth, souvenirs from travel, etc..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes newsletters, brochures, reports, and booklets published by federal government agencies, including the Congressional Record, congressional directories, Dept. of Commerce documents, and Subcommittee on Foreign Relations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes booklets, pamphlets, etc., documenting primarily the Middle East and Western Europe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of small notebooks and diaries of daily work and contacts. It also includes notebooks that track time and expenses of specific projects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes printed material from the League of Women Voters organization, both national and WV material, including minutes from meetings, lists of LWV members, WV newsletter, newspaper clippings, and memorandums. Some of the articles Mrs. Barns wrote and her research materials are included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of material collected and written by Mrs. Barns concerning national and international trade in West Virginia, including state and federal statistical reports, her notes, and papers she wrote.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes folded maps and bound atlases of the United States (boxes 83-87) and also railroad maps, bus time tables, misc. time tables, etc. (box 88).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes booklets, student catalogs, school directories, etc., from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Barns was a summer exchange professor at McMaster in 1957, 1959, and 1961.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes pamphlets, booklets, brochures, etc. on nuclear build-ups, the military draft, conscription, and military spending.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes calendars, pamphlets, booklets, brochures, business cards, miscellaneous unsorted mail, etc. (boxes 94a-115). Topics include home improvement material, sewing tips, receipts, how to choose a camera, hospital records, electric company information, income tax information, meet the press transcripts, annual reports from major corporations,  etc.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 116a-116c include photos, photo postcards, correspondence, clippings, ephemera, and other material removed from books in the collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of personal correspondence, articles Doretha Barnes wrote, papers she wrote while a student in college, and material documenting her run for the West Virginia House of Delegates in the 1960s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes annual conference programs dating back to the early 1900s, printed booklets, leaflets, pamphlets, songbooks, Grange newspapers, and correspondence between Dr. Barns and the Grange Association. Materials specific to West Virginia were moved to Series 37. West Virginia-Grange History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes folders on specific topics Dr. Barns followed in the media such as militarism, students, nuclear arms race, etc.. It also folders marked research leads. The majority of the boxes in this series contain miscellaneous unsorted clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes a West Virginia University law school review and several copies of the 100th anniversary edition of the Morgantown Dominion Post.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of a publication about race relations that switched to a magazine style format in 1949.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes pamphlets, booklets, leaflets, and clippings, etc. documenting conciencious objectors, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the National Council for the Prevention of War, etc..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes booklets, statistical surveys, tourist publications, general and regional histories, etc., related to Pennsylvania.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes photographs of personal family members, Morgantown and West Virginia University, and two glass plate negatives. The microfilm in this series consists of one roll related to the proceedings of the Maryland Grange (1911-1915). The tapes in this series are productions of speeches by foundations outside WV. The video tapes are about politics and speeches given during the Benedum Lecture Series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains an autobiographical outline of Barns's professional career, research notes, articles he wrote, speeches he gave, and copies of his book on Grange history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes minutes, correspondence, newsletters, etc., from organizations he belonged to or received material from. Organizations include the West Virginia Historical Society, American Association of University Professors, and the West Virginia Archeological Society, etc..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes one scrapbook of congratulation letters on Barns's retirement in March 1985, one on Canada, and two books of miscellaneoous newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of Journal of History special editions on specific topics related to history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes booklets, pamphlets, newspapers, newsletters, etc. from socialist organizations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes letters from other meeting groups, items about the local meeting house in Morgantown, and several of the national publications, including literature about the Quaker lifestyle, newsletters, and colleges sponsored by the Society of Friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes newsletters produced by the United Nations (UN) and newsletters from other organizations concerning the UN, newspaper clippings, and booklets of reports issued by the UN.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series Contains publications from universities other than West Virginia University or McMaster University, such as Penn State University, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, and the University of Pittsburgh.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes AAA travel books, maps, brochures, and pamphlets about various sites around the United States of America.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes the Journal of the House of Delegates, copies of the West Virginia constitution, bills and legislative measures, economic impact studies, booklets explaining the role of the WV state government and government offices, booklets listing the House of Delegates appointments in the WV legislature, etc..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes rosters of granges in West Virginia, bulletins, a hard copy edition of Dr. Barns's 1973 book, booklets from various state meetings, etc..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes material related to agriculture in West Virginia, publications by WV authors, three cities booklets, statistical handbooks, political almanacs, and local and regional histories.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of solicitations from the West Virginia University Alumni Center and the alumni newsletter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes booklets, forms, programs, etc. on the history of the organization, proceedings of annual meetings, membership applications, etc..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of university catalogs of undergraduate and graduate class schedules.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes primarily multiple copies of test questions and some notes for class discussion.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes publications, newspaper clippings, notes, etc. regarding people and events related to West Virginia University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes papers, dissertations, student magazines, completed tests by Barns's students, gradebooks, notes on meetings with students, etc..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes material such as faculty senate minutes, memos from the history department and university library, university wide memos, and printed material about the university.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The material has been divided into three main sections of archives, books, and periodicals, and described to the box level. The contents of this collection were created or collected by Dr. William D. Barns and Mrs. Doretha Barns from the 1920s to 1995. The majority of the material pertains to the academic career of Dr. Barns. Mrs. Barns continued to collect material until 1995. Two large series that relate specifically to Mrs. Barns are the League of Women Voters and Mrs. Doretha Barns. In addition, she contributed to the series on the Federal Government, Miscellaneous, Pacifism, and Society of Friends.","\nThe archival material in the collection reflects the personal and professional interests of Dr. Barns. Significant series related to his personal interests include the Morgantown \"Society of Friends\" meeting house; \"Pacifism\"; \"Newspaper Clippings\" of local, state, and national events; and \"West Virginia Government.\" Large series related to his professional career include \"West Virginia University\"; \"Professional Career\" (which includes his research notes, articles, and the book he wrote); \"Professional Organizations\" (which he participated in); and material on the \"West Virginia and National Grange.\"","\nArchival material also includes papers of T.C. Atkeson, known for being the national spokesman of the Grange in Washington D.C., 1919-1927. He was born in Putnam County in 1852, in the town of Buffalo, West Virginia. He was dean of the College of Agriculture at WVU from 1897 to 1910, and served as the WV State Grange master for twenty-one years. These papers include correspondence, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, certificates, etc. documenting speeches to Congress, history of the Grange, the WV Grange, among other topics.","\nThe books in the collection include American and West Virginia history books, agriculture books, and many early edition novels. The periodicals are a mixture of academic journals such as  Journal of American Historians  and  West Virginia History ; research periodicals such as the  Pennsylvania Farmer , the  Grange Monthly , and the  Farm Journal ; and periodicals of personal interest to Dr. Barns such as the  Link and Maclean's .","This series includes brochures, newsletters, pamphlets and other misc. printed material from national and West Virginia offices of the ACLU.","This series includes booklets, pamphlets, etc. about national agriculture. All West Virginia agricultural material is in Series 35. West Virginia-History.","This series includes booklets, pamphlets, and rolled material about the Civil War, Revolutionary War, the National Archives and Records Service, and book series \"The Middle Period of American History,\" by Oliver P. Chitwood, etc.","The material in this series pertains to Thomas Clark Atkeson (1852-1935), born in Buffalo, Putnam County WV. Atkeson served as the Dean of the College of Agriculture at West Virginia University (1897-1910), State Grange master for 21 years, and national spokesman for the Grange in Washington D.C. (1919-1927).","This series includes correspondence, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, booklets, certificates, copies of \"West Virginia Agriculturalist\" journal he published. Topics include speeches to congress, history of the Grange, the West Virginia Grange, etc. ","This series consists of solicitation booklets and pamphlets for text books and other reading material.","This series includes maps, brochures, booklets, event programs, and vacation pamphlets, etc., related to Canada. The majority of this material is related to Toronto, Hamilton, and Ontario.","This series consists of Barns's personal and professional correspondence.","This series includes plaques/honors received, framed diplomas, West Virginia Grange certificates, framed organization certificates, cloth, souvenirs from travel, etc..","This series includes newsletters, brochures, reports, and booklets published by federal government agencies, including the Congressional Record, congressional directories, Dept. of Commerce documents, and Subcommittee on Foreign Relations.","This series includes booklets, pamphlets, etc., documenting primarily the Middle East and Western Europe.","This series consists of small notebooks and diaries of daily work and contacts. It also includes notebooks that track time and expenses of specific projects.","This series includes printed material from the League of Women Voters organization, both national and WV material, including minutes from meetings, lists of LWV members, WV newsletter, newspaper clippings, and memorandums. Some of the articles Mrs. Barns wrote and her research materials are included.","This series consists of material collected and written by Mrs. Barns concerning national and international trade in West Virginia, including state and federal statistical reports, her notes, and papers she wrote.","This series includes folded maps and bound atlases of the United States (boxes 83-87) and also railroad maps, bus time tables, misc. time tables, etc. (box 88).","This series includes booklets, student catalogs, school directories, etc., from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Barns was a summer exchange professor at McMaster in 1957, 1959, and 1961.","This series includes pamphlets, booklets, brochures, etc. on nuclear build-ups, the military draft, conscription, and military spending.","This series includes calendars, pamphlets, booklets, brochures, business cards, miscellaneous unsorted mail, etc. (boxes 94a-115). Topics include home improvement material, sewing tips, receipts, how to choose a camera, hospital records, electric company information, income tax information, meet the press transcripts, annual reports from major corporations,  etc.","Boxes 116a-116c include photos, photo postcards, correspondence, clippings, ephemera, and other material removed from books in the collection.","This series consists of personal correspondence, articles Doretha Barnes wrote, papers she wrote while a student in college, and material documenting her run for the West Virginia House of Delegates in the 1960s.","This series includes annual conference programs dating back to the early 1900s, printed booklets, leaflets, pamphlets, songbooks, Grange newspapers, and correspondence between Dr. Barns and the Grange Association. Materials specific to West Virginia were moved to Series 37. West Virginia-Grange History.","This series includes folders on specific topics Dr. Barns followed in the media such as militarism, students, nuclear arms race, etc.. It also folders marked research leads. The majority of the boxes in this series contain miscellaneous unsorted clippings.","This series includes a West Virginia University law school review and several copies of the 100th anniversary edition of the Morgantown Dominion Post.","This series consists of a publication about race relations that switched to a magazine style format in 1949.","This series includes pamphlets, booklets, leaflets, and clippings, etc. documenting conciencious objectors, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the National Council for the Prevention of War, etc..","This series includes booklets, statistical surveys, tourist publications, general and regional histories, etc., related to Pennsylvania.","This series includes photographs of personal family members, Morgantown and West Virginia University, and two glass plate negatives. The microfilm in this series consists of one roll related to the proceedings of the Maryland Grange (1911-1915). The tapes in this series are productions of speeches by foundations outside WV. The video tapes are about politics and speeches given during the Benedum Lecture Series.","This series contains an autobiographical outline of Barns's professional career, research notes, articles he wrote, speeches he gave, and copies of his book on Grange history.","This series includes minutes, correspondence, newsletters, etc., from organizations he belonged to or received material from. Organizations include the West Virginia Historical Society, American Association of University Professors, and the West Virginia Archeological Society, etc..","This series includes one scrapbook of congratulation letters on Barns's retirement in March 1985, one on Canada, and two books of miscellaneoous newspaper clippings.","This series consists of Journal of History special editions on specific topics related to history.","This series includes booklets, pamphlets, newspapers, newsletters, etc. from socialist organizations.","This series includes letters from other meeting groups, items about the local meeting house in Morgantown, and several of the national publications, including literature about the Quaker lifestyle, newsletters, and colleges sponsored by the Society of Friends.","This series includes newsletters produced by the United Nations (UN) and newsletters from other organizations concerning the UN, newspaper clippings, and booklets of reports issued by the UN.","This series Contains publications from universities other than West Virginia University or McMaster University, such as Penn State University, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, and the University of Pittsburgh.","This series includes AAA travel books, maps, brochures, and pamphlets about various sites around the United States of America.","This series includes the Journal of the House of Delegates, copies of the West Virginia constitution, bills and legislative measures, economic impact studies, booklets explaining the role of the WV state government and government offices, booklets listing the House of Delegates appointments in the WV legislature, etc..","This series includes rosters of granges in West Virginia, bulletins, a hard copy edition of Dr. Barns's 1973 book, booklets from various state meetings, etc..","This series includes material related to agriculture in West Virginia, publications by WV authors, three cities booklets, statistical handbooks, political almanacs, and local and regional histories.","This series consists of solicitations from the West Virginia University Alumni Center and the alumni newsletter.","This series includes booklets, forms, programs, etc. on the history of the organization, proceedings of annual meetings, membership applications, etc..","This series consists of university catalogs of undergraduate and graduate class schedules.","This series includes primarily multiple copies of test questions and some notes for class discussion.","This series includes publications, newspaper clippings, notes, etc. regarding people and events related to West Virginia University.","This series includes papers, dissertations, student magazines, completed tests by Barns's students, gradebooks, notes on meetings with students, etc..","This series includes material such as faculty senate minutes, memos from the history department and university library, university wide memos, and printed material about the university."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eFifteen copies of the Monticola, West Virginia University yearbook, separated to A\u0026amp;M 5025 (1971-1984, 1986, 1992 (in boxes 40-41).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\n--\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nWilliam D. Barns Collection books designated for Rare Book Room:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAllen, Lewis F. American Cattle: Their History, Breeding and Management. Revised. New York: O. Judd Co., 1887. Bluish green cloth, gilt stamped cow on front cover and decorative title and author in gilt on spine. Bookplate removed.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAmerican Wit and Humor. Vol. 1. Philadelphia: Georg W. Jacobs, 1900. Bright and clean navy blue cloth cover, with gilt embossed title and boxed design of six ears of corn on cornstalks.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAshby, N. B. The Riddle of the Sphinx: A Discussion of the Economic Questions Relating to Agriculture, land, Transportation, Money, Taxation, and Cost of Interchange. Des Moines, Iowa: Industrial Publishing Co., 1890. Rough-grained maroon cloth. Black embossed borders and corner decorations on front. Gilt stamped sphinx and pyramid on front cover. Gilt lettering and black design on spine. Floral endpapers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAtherton, Gertrude. California: An Intimate History. New York: Harper, 1914. First edition with K-O on copyright page. Decorative cover, no dust jacket.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAtkeson, Thomas Clark. A Catechism of Agriculture: Illustrated. New York: Orange Judd, 1913. Chocolate brown grain cloth. Embossed design at top and bottom of covers. Title and author stamped in white in box on front cover and on spine. Very, very fine condition.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAtkeson, Thomas Clark. Semi-Centennial History of the Patrons of Husbandry. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1915. Chocolate brown cloth, with gilt embossed lettering on front cover and spine. Minor wear at bottom corners and bottom of spine, otherwise like-new copy of book by a West Virginia author.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAtkeson, Thomas Clark. Semi-Centennial History of the Patrons of Husbandry. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1915. Chocolate brown cloth, with gilt embossed lettering on front cover and spine. Stained all around edges of front cover and entire spine, book by a West Virginia author.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nBailey, L. H. The Horticulturist's Rule Book: A Compendium of Useful Information for Fruit-Growers, Truck-Gardeners, Florists and Others; Completed to the Beginning of the Year 1892. 2nd edition, revised. New York: Rural Publishing Company, 1892. Deep brown grain cloth cover, with embossed decoration at top and bottom of front cover. Gold stamped title, vine, watering can, hoe, and rake.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nBlackmore, R. D. Lorna Doone, A Novel. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, [date not stated, circa 1900]. White half-paper decorated in gilt-highlighted violets; white cloth spine elaborately decorated in gilt title, author, publisher, and floral designs; all three edges gilt; corners and fore-edge of paper cover chipped.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nBridgeman, Thomas. The American Gardener's Assistant, In Three Parts: Containing Complete Practical Directions for the Cultivation of Vegetables, Flowers, Fruit Trees, and Grape-Vines. New edition revised, enlarged, and illustrated by S. Edwards Todd. Philadelphia: Porter \u0026amp; Coates, 1866. Smooth-grained brown cloth. Black embossed borders with decorations on front cover, blind embossed on back cover. Gilt stamped wreath on front cover. Gold stamped agricultural tools and watering can, with black and gold decorations and gold lettering, on spine.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nBuck, Pearl S. Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul. New York: Triangle Books, 1939, reprinted April 1940. Hard cover, light blue faded by water spots, dust jacket in good condition. Owner's bookplate.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nBuck, Solon J. The Agrarian Crusade: A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920. Volume 45: The Chronicles of America Series. Extra-Illustrated edition. Smooth-grained maroon cloth cover. Borders, title, and author in gold on cover and spine. Highly ornate tablet in gold with white and black eagle and four open books on front cover. Gold decoration with open book on spine.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nButler, Frederick. The farmer's manual : being a plain practical treatise on the art of husbandry, designed to promote an acquaintance with the modern improvements in agriculture, together with remarks on gardening, and a treatise on the management of bees. Weathersfield [Conn.]: Published by the author, 1821. Lacks covers. Title page partially missing and stained. Extremely fragile.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nCachia, Anthony J. Libya under the Second Ottoman Occupation (1835-1911). Tripoli: Government Press, 1945. Signed by author and by Howard J. Forbes, previous owner.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nCobb, Irvin S. Roughing It De Luxe. Illustrated by John T. McCutcheon. New York: George H. Doran, 1914. Violet brown cloth. Title and author in gilt on front cover and spine. Black and white label at top of front cover picturing Santa Fe railway train with man perched atop the steam locomotive.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nCobleigh, Rolfe. Handy farm Devices and How to Make Them. (Farm Life Series) New York: Orange Judd Company, 1910. Olive green cloth cover, with black title, author, series, borders, and wheat designs stamped.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nConnor, Ralph. The Major. New York: George H. Doran, 1917. Bright and clean blue cloth cover, with embossed raised figure of a soldier and raised gilt title.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nConnor, Ralph. The Man From Glengarry: A Tale of the Ottawa. Special edition limited to 50,000 copies. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1901. Rust brown cloth cover. Title and author in black on front cover and spine. Tan outline of man standing on logs in a tree-lined river, with tan and black sky in background.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nConnor, Ralph. The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land. New York: George H. Doran, 1919. Dark blue cloth. Four blind-embossed soldiers and leafless tree on front cover, with title, author, and flames in orange.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nConnor, Ralph. The Sky Pilot: A Tale of the Foothills. Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, 1901. Dark tan cloth. Title and author in red on cover and spine. Standing man with sombrero and ammunition belt in navy blue on cover.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nde Valette, Marc. La Methode Directe pour L'Enseignement des Langues Vivantes a l'aide des Tableaux Auxiliaires. Deuxieme livre. Deuxieme edition. Edinburgh: Printed at the Ballantyne Press, [1910?]. Dark green cloth, gilt stamped title on cover and spine, gilt stamped decorative design of a sower in front of rising sun, fleur de lis embossed rows at top and bottom of front cover.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nDecorum: A Practical Treatise on Etiquette \u0026amp; Dress of the Best American Society, 1879. With illustrations and captions from Hill's Manual of Business and Social Forms. Westvaco Corporation, 1979. Clean and bright red-orange cloth covers, in decorative slip case.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nDickens, Charles. Bleak House. New York: Mershon Company, [1890s-1900s?] Maroon cloth. Blind stamped with designs of three elaborate hinges on front and back covers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nEllsworth, Henry W. The American Swine Breeder: A Practical Treatise on the Selection, Rearing and Fattening of Swine. Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Company; Philadelphia: Hogan and Thompson, 1840. Brown cloth grain cover, with embossed design and gilt stamped spine.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nFarjeon, Eleanor, and Herbert Farjeon. Kings and Queens. Illustrated by Rosalind Thornycroft. New York: E.P. Dutton, [no date]. Clean and bright paper cover with colored illustration of a king and a queen surrounded by red draperies, same design in same colors on dust jacket.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nFarm Conveniences: A Practical Hand-Book for the Farm. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1884. Profusely illustrated. Olive green cloth with title and sickle stamped in gold on front cover and title and farming tools in gold on spine. Black lined tools and wheat on front cover. Bookplate of the Library of the West Virginia Experiment Station inside front cover. Decorative end papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nFarm Implement News Buyer's Guide: Where to Purchase Farm Implements, Machines and Vehicles. Vol. III. Chicago: Farm Implement News Company, 1891. Numerous illustrations of farm machinery throughout, and advertising on endpapers. Olive green cloth cover, with title, publisher, and advertising stamped in black.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nFox, John, Jr. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1906. Bright and clean burgundy cloth cover, with embossed white title.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nFullerton, Edith Loring. How to Make a Vegetable Garden: A Practical and Suggestive Manual for the Home Garden. Illustrated by H. B. Fullerton. New York: Doubleday, Page \u0026amp; Co., 1905. Light green cloth, with title and borders in black. Front cover with photograph label of woman tilling a garden.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nHale, Philip H. The Book of Live Stock Champions, Being an Artistic Souvenir Supplement of the Monthly National Farmer and Stock Grower. St. Louis: Philip Henry Hale, 1912. Bright blue cloth cover, gilt border and lettering on front. Like new condition.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nHalevy, Ludovic. The Abbe Constantin. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, [date not stated, circa 1900]. Cloth covers with pink background, silver title, floral design with silver stems and green leaves, formed into wreath on front cover, soiled, worn at spine top and bottom; decorative half title and title pages.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nHarris, Joseph. Talks on Manures: A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks. New and Enlarged edition. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1902. Chocolate brown cloth cover, embossed with designs. Gilt stamped shovel and pitchfork on front cover.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nHarvey, William Hope. The Remedy. Chicago: Mundus Publishing Co., 1915. Marron cloth. Like new condition of a rarely seen book written by a West Virginia author, inscribed by author.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nHello Bill! A Book of After Dinner Stories. New York: H. M. Caldwell, 1911. Bright and clean purple cloth cover, with white title, clock, and antlered deer.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nHenderson, Peter. Gardening for Profit: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of the Market and Family Garden. New and enlarged edition. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1884. Green cloth, embossed with designs, bright gilt cabbage on front cover, gilt stamped title and publisher on spine. Clean with minimal wear and several small spots on cover.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nHenderson, Peter. Gardening for Profit: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of the Market and Family Garden. New and enlarged edition. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1874. Green cloth, embossed with designs, gilt cabbage on front cover, gilt stamped title and publisher on spine. Worn, soiled and stained, but sound.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nHenderson, Peter. Practical Floriculture: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of Florist's Plants, for the Amateur and Professional Florist. New and enlarged edition. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1897. Green cloth. Embossed design and gilt stamped title on front cover. Gilt stamped title, author, and publisher names on spine. Floral end papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nHough, Emerson. Fifty-four Forty or Fight. With illustrations by Arthur I. Keller. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1909. Bright and clean dark olive green cloth cover, with embossed geometrical designs and yellow title background.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nKelley, O. H. Origin and Progress of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry in the United States; A History from 1863 to 1873. Philadelphia: J. A. Wagenseller, 1875. Title, author, and sickle gold stamped on spine.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nLongfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, [date not stated, circa 1900]. Gray-brown cloth, orange \"L\" within wreath, acorn and orange oak leaf design on spine and five on front cover, black embossed title and author. Soiled and foxed.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nLucas, Daniel B., and J. Fairfax McLaughlin. Fisher Ames-Henry Clay, etc. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1891. West Virginia author, sound text, and clean black cloth cover.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nMartin, Edward Winslow. History of the Grange Movement; or, The Farmer's War Against Monopolies: being... a History of the Rise and Progress of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry... Philadelphia: National Publishing Co., 1873. Leather cover, embossed borders, black and gold title label on spine, marbled end papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nMichel, Louise. La Commune. Bibliotheque Sociologique. 8th edition. Paris: Librarie P. V. Stock, 1921. Paper wrappers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nMontgomery, E. G. Productive Farm Crops. (Lippincott's Farm Manuals) Philadelphia: J.B Lippincott Company, 1918. Dark tan cloth, decorated in green lettering and vegetable vignettes, with orange background. Lightly marbled edges. Condition very fine, but interior foxed.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nMorrell, L. A. The American Shepherd: Being a History of the Sheep, with their Breeds, Management, and Diseases. ... New York: Harper \u0026amp; Brothers, 1845. Brown cloth cover, embossed with a pattern and a blind-embossed design of a circle with arrows protruding from top and bottom.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nNolan, Aretas W. One Hundred lessons in Elementary Agriculture. Morgantown, WV: Acme Publishing Co., 1908. Dark brown cloth. Like new condition of a rarely seen book published in Morgantown.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOrr, James L. The National Grange Choir, Published by the Executive Committee of the National Grange, for use in the Granges of the United States. Philadelphia: Printed by J. A. Wagenseller, 1883. Oblong shaped book, music scores and lyrics.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOur Homes: How to Beautify Them. New York: O. Judd Co., 1887. Blue green cloth, with embossed border design. Gilt stamped spine with title, publisher, peacock feathers, flowers, and leaves.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nPackard, S. S., and H. B. Bryant. The New Bryant and Stratton Common School Book-Keeping: Embracing Single and Double Entry. ... New York: American Book Company, 1878. Grey-taupe cloth cover, deeply embossed with elaborate designs, black stamped on front cover and blind on back. Includes publisher's symbol black embossed in center of front cover. Condition very fine.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nRandall, Henry S. The Practical Shepherd: A Complete Treatise on the Breeding, Management and Diseases of Sheep. Nineteenth edition. Rochester, NY: D.D.T. Moore, 1864. Deep green cloth, blind embossed designs, embossed gilt stamped sheep on front cover, blind embossed sheep on back cover, gilt lettering and sheep on spine.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nRandall, Henry S. The Practical Shepherd: A Complete Treatise on the Breeding, Management and Diseases of Sheep. Thirty-first edition. New York: The American News Company, 1863. Brown-orange cloth, embossed designs in black, bright gilt stamped sheep on cover, and black and gilt lettering on spine. Bumped corners, soiled spine, otherwise very nice condition.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nRead, John E. Farming for Profit: A Hand-Book for the American Farmer. Philadelphia: P. W. Ziegler, 1882, c1880. Elaborately illustrated front cover, black embossed images of tools, crops, livestock, poultry, horse drawn carriage, basket, and gilt stamped title, plow, and basket. Same image on back but lacking gold. Spine similarly illustrated with cow's head and farming machinery.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nRevell, Nellie. The Funny Side Out: After, Before and During Dinner Stories with Apologies to Whoever First Told Them. New York: George H. Doran, 1925. Red cloth with black lettering and design. Multiple figures, men and women, each occupying a diamond in a latticework design. Cover signed IRB (?).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nRiley, James Whitcomb. Riley Farm-Rhymes. With country pictures by Will Vawter. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1905. Pink-orange cloth. Title and author on cover brown outlined in black. Spine includes ear of corn, with kernels in brown. Worm holes aligned with hinge between front cover and spine.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nRobinson, Rowland E. Uncle Lisha's Shop and a Danvis Pioneer. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1933. Elaborate stamped turtle shell pattern on deep green cloth. Also gilt stamped pine branch and author's name on front cover. Gilt stamped lettering on spine. Very fine condition.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nRoot, A. I., and E. R. Root. The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture.: A Cyclopedia of Everything Pertaining to the Care of the Honey-bee ... Medina, Ohio: The A. I. Root Company, 1910. Black cloth cover, blind embossed with title on front and back, and gold stamped 2.5 inch bee on front cover. Floral endpapers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nRowlands, Walter. Among the Great Masters of Painting: Scenes in the Lives of Famous Painters. Boston: Dana Estes, 1901. Clean and bright white cloth cover, with embossed gilt title, columns, and artist's palette.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nRUS : A Biographical Register of Rural Leadership in the United States and Canada. Compiled by L.H. Bailey and Ethel Zoe Bailey. \"Fourth issue.\" Ithaca, NY, 1930. Tan cloth with black title, date, four stars, and design of scythes and sickles.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nRus: A Biographical Register of Rural Leadership in the United States and Canada. Compiled by L. H. Bailey and Ethel Zoe Bailey. Ithaca, N.Y., 1925. \"Rus\" is Latin for \"the country.\" Decorative cloth cover.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nScott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe, A Romance. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, [date not stated, circa 1900]. Light green cloth, clean, with multi-colored depiction of jousting knights with castle and trees in background. Author's name in black, and title in yellow-orange, outlined in black. Sword and crossed lances on spine.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nSheppard, Muriel Earley. Cloud by Day: A Story of Coal and Coke and People. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1947. Bright and clean black cloth cover, with pictorial dust jacket.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nStephens, C. A. Haps and Mishaps at the Old Farm. Norway, Maine: The Old Squire's Bookstore, 1925. Deep brown cloth with red lettering and maroon lines. With illustrated end papers and frontispiece.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nStephens, C. A. My Folks in Maine. Norway, Maine: The Old Squire's Bookstore, 1934. Tan cloth with light tan lettering and lines. With illustrated end papers and frontispiece.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nStephens, C. A. Katahdin Camps. Norway, Maine: The Old Squire's Bookstore, 1928. With illustrations by Jacob Bates Abbott. Mossy green cloth with dark green lettering and lines. Illustrated end papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nStiles, Kent B. Stamps: An Outline of Philately. Illustrated by numerous photographs. New York: Harper \u0026amp; Brothers, 1929. Third printing. Bright orange cloth, with black lettering, very modest wear and soil.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nStuart, Jesse. The Thread that Runs so True. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. Rust brown cloth in very fine condition. Signed by author. Dust jacket with title: The Thread That Runs so True: A Mountain School-teacher Tells His Story.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nTarkington, Booth. Beasley's Christmas Party. Illustrated by Ruth Sypherd Clements. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1909. Title page and numerous illustrations in color. Deep red cloth. Blind embossed design of holly leaves and berries on front cover. Title and author lettering gilt stamped on front cover and spine.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nTarkington, Booth. The Conquest of Canaan: A Novel. Illustrations by Lucius W. Hitchcock. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1905. Red-orange cloth. Gold stamped title and spine with decorative frame incorporating leaves and flowers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nTarkington, Booth. The Midlander. Garden City: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1924. Olive green cloth, with author, title, and frame stamped in gold. Dust jacket includes artist's cityscape on front, photo portrait of Tarkington on back, and list on the inside of publisher's other fiction books.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nTerry, T. B. Our Farming; or, How We have Made a Run-down Farm Bring Both Profit and Pleasure; Potato, Wheat, and Clover Culture, Tillage, Tile Drainage, Manure Saving, etc., etc.; Treated Independently from A to Z. Philadelphia: The Farmer Company, 1893. Maroon cloth. Title stamped in gold on cover and spine. Some internal foxing.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe Arabian Nights. Orton Lowe, editor. Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 1924. Red cloth cover, with full size paper label on front cover bearing title and colored illustration of scene from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Illustrated end papers. Sixty illustrations. With colored plates by Adelaide H. Bolton.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe Baptist Hymnal (Abridged) for Use in the Church and Home. W. Howard Doane, musical editor. E.H. Johnson, associate editor. Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1883. Stamped on front and back paste-down end papers: Property of Beth-Eden Baptist Church, Allegheny, Pa. Hard cover.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe Chautauqua Collection (Choruses and Part-Songs). Compiled by Arthur Hallam. Cincinnati: The John Church Company, 1915. Deep green cloth with black stamped title.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThomas, John J. The American Fruit Culturist: Containing Practical Directions for the Propagation and Culture of all Fruits Adapted to the United States. 21st edition, revised and enlarged by William H. S. Wood. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1920. Green cloth cover, with gold stamped raspberries on front.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nVan Dyke, Henry. The Blue Flower. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1902. Multi-color cover design, signed within design by Margaret Armstrong.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nVerne, Jules. The Lighthouse at the End of the World. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1924. Tan cloth with embossed green title, author, and full-rigged ship within frame, in very fine condtion. Dust jacket with colored illustration of ship and lighthouse.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nWhite, William Allen. A Certain Rich Man. New York: Macmillan, 1909. Green cloth. Title set in gold framed rectangle, sheaves of wheat in gold on cover and spine, author's name in gold.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nWillson, Marcius. Outlines of History: Illustrated by numerous [G]eographical and Historical Notes and Maps embracing Part I. Ancient History Part II. Modern History. School edition. New York: Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman \u0026amp; Co., 1868. Dark brown cloth blind embossed with border design and logo of publisher. Black leather spine with gilt stamped title.\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Fifteen copies of the Monticola, West Virginia University yearbook, separated to A\u0026M 5025 (1971-1984, 1986, 1992 (in boxes 40-41).","\n--","\nWilliam D. Barns Collection books designated for Rare Book Room:","\nAllen, Lewis F. American Cattle: Their History, Breeding and Management. Revised. New York: O. Judd Co., 1887. Bluish green cloth, gilt stamped cow on front cover and decorative title and author in gilt on spine. Bookplate removed.","\nAmerican Wit and Humor. Vol. 1. Philadelphia: Georg W. Jacobs, 1900. Bright and clean navy blue cloth cover, with gilt embossed title and boxed design of six ears of corn on cornstalks.","\nAshby, N. B. The Riddle of the Sphinx: A Discussion of the Economic Questions Relating to Agriculture, land, Transportation, Money, Taxation, and Cost of Interchange. Des Moines, Iowa: Industrial Publishing Co., 1890. Rough-grained maroon cloth. Black embossed borders and corner decorations on front. Gilt stamped sphinx and pyramid on front cover. Gilt lettering and black design on spine. Floral endpapers.","\nAtherton, Gertrude. California: An Intimate History. New York: Harper, 1914. First edition with K-O on copyright page. Decorative cover, no dust jacket.","\nAtkeson, Thomas Clark. A Catechism of Agriculture: Illustrated. New York: Orange Judd, 1913. Chocolate brown grain cloth. Embossed design at top and bottom of covers. Title and author stamped in white in box on front cover and on spine. Very, very fine condition.","\nAtkeson, Thomas Clark. Semi-Centennial History of the Patrons of Husbandry. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1915. Chocolate brown cloth, with gilt embossed lettering on front cover and spine. Minor wear at bottom corners and bottom of spine, otherwise like-new copy of book by a West Virginia author.","\nAtkeson, Thomas Clark. Semi-Centennial History of the Patrons of Husbandry. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1915. Chocolate brown cloth, with gilt embossed lettering on front cover and spine. Stained all around edges of front cover and entire spine, book by a West Virginia author.","\nBailey, L. H. The Horticulturist's Rule Book: A Compendium of Useful Information for Fruit-Growers, Truck-Gardeners, Florists and Others; Completed to the Beginning of the Year 1892. 2nd edition, revised. New York: Rural Publishing Company, 1892. Deep brown grain cloth cover, with embossed decoration at top and bottom of front cover. Gold stamped title, vine, watering can, hoe, and rake.","\nBlackmore, R. D. Lorna Doone, A Novel. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, [date not stated, circa 1900]. White half-paper decorated in gilt-highlighted violets; white cloth spine elaborately decorated in gilt title, author, publisher, and floral designs; all three edges gilt; corners and fore-edge of paper cover chipped.","\nBridgeman, Thomas. The American Gardener's Assistant, In Three Parts: Containing Complete Practical Directions for the Cultivation of Vegetables, Flowers, Fruit Trees, and Grape-Vines. New edition revised, enlarged, and illustrated by S. Edwards Todd. Philadelphia: Porter \u0026 Coates, 1866. Smooth-grained brown cloth. Black embossed borders with decorations on front cover, blind embossed on back cover. Gilt stamped wreath on front cover. Gold stamped agricultural tools and watering can, with black and gold decorations and gold lettering, on spine.","\nBuck, Pearl S. Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul. New York: Triangle Books, 1939, reprinted April 1940. Hard cover, light blue faded by water spots, dust jacket in good condition. Owner's bookplate.","\nBuck, Solon J. The Agrarian Crusade: A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920. Volume 45: The Chronicles of America Series. Extra-Illustrated edition. Smooth-grained maroon cloth cover. Borders, title, and author in gold on cover and spine. Highly ornate tablet in gold with white and black eagle and four open books on front cover. Gold decoration with open book on spine.","\nButler, Frederick. The farmer's manual : being a plain practical treatise on the art of husbandry, designed to promote an acquaintance with the modern improvements in agriculture, together with remarks on gardening, and a treatise on the management of bees. Weathersfield [Conn.]: Published by the author, 1821. Lacks covers. Title page partially missing and stained. Extremely fragile.","\nCachia, Anthony J. Libya under the Second Ottoman Occupation (1835-1911). Tripoli: Government Press, 1945. Signed by author and by Howard J. Forbes, previous owner.","\nCobb, Irvin S. Roughing It De Luxe. Illustrated by John T. McCutcheon. New York: George H. Doran, 1914. Violet brown cloth. Title and author in gilt on front cover and spine. Black and white label at top of front cover picturing Santa Fe railway train with man perched atop the steam locomotive.","\nCobleigh, Rolfe. Handy farm Devices and How to Make Them. (Farm Life Series) New York: Orange Judd Company, 1910. Olive green cloth cover, with black title, author, series, borders, and wheat designs stamped.","\nConnor, Ralph. The Major. New York: George H. Doran, 1917. Bright and clean blue cloth cover, with embossed raised figure of a soldier and raised gilt title.","\nConnor, Ralph. The Man From Glengarry: A Tale of the Ottawa. Special edition limited to 50,000 copies. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1901. Rust brown cloth cover. Title and author in black on front cover and spine. Tan outline of man standing on logs in a tree-lined river, with tan and black sky in background.","\nConnor, Ralph. The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land. New York: George H. Doran, 1919. Dark blue cloth. Four blind-embossed soldiers and leafless tree on front cover, with title, author, and flames in orange.","\nConnor, Ralph. The Sky Pilot: A Tale of the Foothills. Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, 1901. Dark tan cloth. Title and author in red on cover and spine. Standing man with sombrero and ammunition belt in navy blue on cover.","\nde Valette, Marc. La Methode Directe pour L'Enseignement des Langues Vivantes a l'aide des Tableaux Auxiliaires. Deuxieme livre. Deuxieme edition. Edinburgh: Printed at the Ballantyne Press, [1910?]. Dark green cloth, gilt stamped title on cover and spine, gilt stamped decorative design of a sower in front of rising sun, fleur de lis embossed rows at top and bottom of front cover.","\nDecorum: A Practical Treatise on Etiquette \u0026 Dress of the Best American Society, 1879. With illustrations and captions from Hill's Manual of Business and Social Forms. Westvaco Corporation, 1979. Clean and bright red-orange cloth covers, in decorative slip case.","\nDickens, Charles. Bleak House. New York: Mershon Company, [1890s-1900s?] Maroon cloth. Blind stamped with designs of three elaborate hinges on front and back covers.","\nEllsworth, Henry W. The American Swine Breeder: A Practical Treatise on the Selection, Rearing and Fattening of Swine. Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Company; Philadelphia: Hogan and Thompson, 1840. Brown cloth grain cover, with embossed design and gilt stamped spine.","\nFarjeon, Eleanor, and Herbert Farjeon. Kings and Queens. Illustrated by Rosalind Thornycroft. New York: E.P. Dutton, [no date]. Clean and bright paper cover with colored illustration of a king and a queen surrounded by red draperies, same design in same colors on dust jacket.","\nFarm Conveniences: A Practical Hand-Book for the Farm. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1884. Profusely illustrated. Olive green cloth with title and sickle stamped in gold on front cover and title and farming tools in gold on spine. Black lined tools and wheat on front cover. Bookplate of the Library of the West Virginia Experiment Station inside front cover. Decorative end papers.","\nFarm Implement News Buyer's Guide: Where to Purchase Farm Implements, Machines and Vehicles. Vol. III. Chicago: Farm Implement News Company, 1891. Numerous illustrations of farm machinery throughout, and advertising on endpapers. Olive green cloth cover, with title, publisher, and advertising stamped in black.","\nFox, John, Jr. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1906. Bright and clean burgundy cloth cover, with embossed white title.","\nFullerton, Edith Loring. How to Make a Vegetable Garden: A Practical and Suggestive Manual for the Home Garden. Illustrated by H. B. Fullerton. New York: Doubleday, Page \u0026 Co., 1905. Light green cloth, with title and borders in black. Front cover with photograph label of woman tilling a garden.","\nHale, Philip H. The Book of Live Stock Champions, Being an Artistic Souvenir Supplement of the Monthly National Farmer and Stock Grower. St. Louis: Philip Henry Hale, 1912. Bright blue cloth cover, gilt border and lettering on front. Like new condition.","\nHalevy, Ludovic. The Abbe Constantin. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, [date not stated, circa 1900]. Cloth covers with pink background, silver title, floral design with silver stems and green leaves, formed into wreath on front cover, soiled, worn at spine top and bottom; decorative half title and title pages.","\nHarris, Joseph. Talks on Manures: A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks. New and Enlarged edition. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1902. Chocolate brown cloth cover, embossed with designs. Gilt stamped shovel and pitchfork on front cover.","\nHarvey, William Hope. The Remedy. Chicago: Mundus Publishing Co., 1915. Marron cloth. Like new condition of a rarely seen book written by a West Virginia author, inscribed by author.","\nHello Bill! A Book of After Dinner Stories. New York: H. M. Caldwell, 1911. Bright and clean purple cloth cover, with white title, clock, and antlered deer.","\nHenderson, Peter. Gardening for Profit: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of the Market and Family Garden. New and enlarged edition. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1884. Green cloth, embossed with designs, bright gilt cabbage on front cover, gilt stamped title and publisher on spine. Clean with minimal wear and several small spots on cover.","\nHenderson, Peter. Gardening for Profit: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of the Market and Family Garden. New and enlarged edition. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1874. Green cloth, embossed with designs, gilt cabbage on front cover, gilt stamped title and publisher on spine. Worn, soiled and stained, but sound.","\nHenderson, Peter. Practical Floriculture: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of Florist's Plants, for the Amateur and Professional Florist. New and enlarged edition. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1897. Green cloth. Embossed design and gilt stamped title on front cover. Gilt stamped title, author, and publisher names on spine. Floral end papers.","\nHough, Emerson. Fifty-four Forty or Fight. With illustrations by Arthur I. Keller. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1909. Bright and clean dark olive green cloth cover, with embossed geometrical designs and yellow title background.","\nKelley, O. H. Origin and Progress of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry in the United States; A History from 1863 to 1873. Philadelphia: J. A. Wagenseller, 1875. Title, author, and sickle gold stamped on spine.","\nLongfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, [date not stated, circa 1900]. Gray-brown cloth, orange \"L\" within wreath, acorn and orange oak leaf design on spine and five on front cover, black embossed title and author. Soiled and foxed.","\nLucas, Daniel B., and J. Fairfax McLaughlin. Fisher Ames-Henry Clay, etc. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1891. West Virginia author, sound text, and clean black cloth cover.","\nMartin, Edward Winslow. History of the Grange Movement; or, The Farmer's War Against Monopolies: being... a History of the Rise and Progress of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry... Philadelphia: National Publishing Co., 1873. Leather cover, embossed borders, black and gold title label on spine, marbled end papers.","\nMichel, Louise. La Commune. Bibliotheque Sociologique. 8th edition. Paris: Librarie P. V. Stock, 1921. Paper wrappers.","\nMontgomery, E. G. Productive Farm Crops. (Lippincott's Farm Manuals) Philadelphia: J.B Lippincott Company, 1918. Dark tan cloth, decorated in green lettering and vegetable vignettes, with orange background. Lightly marbled edges. Condition very fine, but interior foxed.","\nMorrell, L. A. The American Shepherd: Being a History of the Sheep, with their Breeds, Management, and Diseases. ... New York: Harper \u0026 Brothers, 1845. Brown cloth cover, embossed with a pattern and a blind-embossed design of a circle with arrows protruding from top and bottom.","\nNolan, Aretas W. One Hundred lessons in Elementary Agriculture. Morgantown, WV: Acme Publishing Co., 1908. Dark brown cloth. Like new condition of a rarely seen book published in Morgantown.","\nOrr, James L. The National Grange Choir, Published by the Executive Committee of the National Grange, for use in the Granges of the United States. Philadelphia: Printed by J. A. Wagenseller, 1883. Oblong shaped book, music scores and lyrics.","\nOur Homes: How to Beautify Them. New York: O. Judd Co., 1887. Blue green cloth, with embossed border design. Gilt stamped spine with title, publisher, peacock feathers, flowers, and leaves.","\nPackard, S. S., and H. B. Bryant. The New Bryant and Stratton Common School Book-Keeping: Embracing Single and Double Entry. ... New York: American Book Company, 1878. Grey-taupe cloth cover, deeply embossed with elaborate designs, black stamped on front cover and blind on back. Includes publisher's symbol black embossed in center of front cover. Condition very fine.","\nRandall, Henry S. The Practical Shepherd: A Complete Treatise on the Breeding, Management and Diseases of Sheep. Nineteenth edition. Rochester, NY: D.D.T. Moore, 1864. Deep green cloth, blind embossed designs, embossed gilt stamped sheep on front cover, blind embossed sheep on back cover, gilt lettering and sheep on spine.","\nRandall, Henry S. The Practical Shepherd: A Complete Treatise on the Breeding, Management and Diseases of Sheep. Thirty-first edition. New York: The American News Company, 1863. Brown-orange cloth, embossed designs in black, bright gilt stamped sheep on cover, and black and gilt lettering on spine. Bumped corners, soiled spine, otherwise very nice condition.","\nRead, John E. Farming for Profit: A Hand-Book for the American Farmer. Philadelphia: P. W. Ziegler, 1882, c1880. Elaborately illustrated front cover, black embossed images of tools, crops, livestock, poultry, horse drawn carriage, basket, and gilt stamped title, plow, and basket. Same image on back but lacking gold. Spine similarly illustrated with cow's head and farming machinery.","\nRevell, Nellie. The Funny Side Out: After, Before and During Dinner Stories with Apologies to Whoever First Told Them. New York: George H. Doran, 1925. Red cloth with black lettering and design. Multiple figures, men and women, each occupying a diamond in a latticework design. Cover signed IRB (?).","\nRiley, James Whitcomb. Riley Farm-Rhymes. With country pictures by Will Vawter. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1905. Pink-orange cloth. Title and author on cover brown outlined in black. Spine includes ear of corn, with kernels in brown. Worm holes aligned with hinge between front cover and spine.","\nRobinson, Rowland E. Uncle Lisha's Shop and a Danvis Pioneer. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1933. Elaborate stamped turtle shell pattern on deep green cloth. Also gilt stamped pine branch and author's name on front cover. Gilt stamped lettering on spine. Very fine condition.","\nRoot, A. I., and E. R. Root. The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture.: A Cyclopedia of Everything Pertaining to the Care of the Honey-bee ... Medina, Ohio: The A. I. Root Company, 1910. Black cloth cover, blind embossed with title on front and back, and gold stamped 2.5 inch bee on front cover. Floral endpapers.","\nRowlands, Walter. Among the Great Masters of Painting: Scenes in the Lives of Famous Painters. Boston: Dana Estes, 1901. Clean and bright white cloth cover, with embossed gilt title, columns, and artist's palette.","\nRUS : A Biographical Register of Rural Leadership in the United States and Canada. Compiled by L.H. Bailey and Ethel Zoe Bailey. \"Fourth issue.\" Ithaca, NY, 1930. Tan cloth with black title, date, four stars, and design of scythes and sickles.","\nRus: A Biographical Register of Rural Leadership in the United States and Canada. Compiled by L. H. Bailey and Ethel Zoe Bailey. Ithaca, N.Y., 1925. \"Rus\" is Latin for \"the country.\" Decorative cloth cover.","\nScott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe, A Romance. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, [date not stated, circa 1900]. Light green cloth, clean, with multi-colored depiction of jousting knights with castle and trees in background. Author's name in black, and title in yellow-orange, outlined in black. Sword and crossed lances on spine.","\nSheppard, Muriel Earley. Cloud by Day: A Story of Coal and Coke and People. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1947. Bright and clean black cloth cover, with pictorial dust jacket.","\nStephens, C. A. Haps and Mishaps at the Old Farm. Norway, Maine: The Old Squire's Bookstore, 1925. Deep brown cloth with red lettering and maroon lines. With illustrated end papers and frontispiece.","\nStephens, C. A. My Folks in Maine. Norway, Maine: The Old Squire's Bookstore, 1934. Tan cloth with light tan lettering and lines. With illustrated end papers and frontispiece.","\nStephens, C. A. Katahdin Camps. Norway, Maine: The Old Squire's Bookstore, 1928. With illustrations by Jacob Bates Abbott. Mossy green cloth with dark green lettering and lines. Illustrated end papers.","\nStiles, Kent B. Stamps: An Outline of Philately. Illustrated by numerous photographs. New York: Harper \u0026 Brothers, 1929. Third printing. Bright orange cloth, with black lettering, very modest wear and soil.","\nStuart, Jesse. The Thread that Runs so True. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. Rust brown cloth in very fine condition. Signed by author. Dust jacket with title: The Thread That Runs so True: A Mountain School-teacher Tells His Story.","\nTarkington, Booth. Beasley's Christmas Party. Illustrated by Ruth Sypherd Clements. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1909. Title page and numerous illustrations in color. Deep red cloth. Blind embossed design of holly leaves and berries on front cover. Title and author lettering gilt stamped on front cover and spine.","\nTarkington, Booth. The Conquest of Canaan: A Novel. Illustrations by Lucius W. Hitchcock. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1905. Red-orange cloth. Gold stamped title and spine with decorative frame incorporating leaves and flowers.","\nTarkington, Booth. The Midlander. Garden City: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1924. Olive green cloth, with author, title, and frame stamped in gold. Dust jacket includes artist's cityscape on front, photo portrait of Tarkington on back, and list on the inside of publisher's other fiction books.","\nTerry, T. B. Our Farming; or, How We have Made a Run-down Farm Bring Both Profit and Pleasure; Potato, Wheat, and Clover Culture, Tillage, Tile Drainage, Manure Saving, etc., etc.; Treated Independently from A to Z. Philadelphia: The Farmer Company, 1893. Maroon cloth. Title stamped in gold on cover and spine. Some internal foxing.","\nThe Arabian Nights. Orton Lowe, editor. Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 1924. Red cloth cover, with full size paper label on front cover bearing title and colored illustration of scene from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Illustrated end papers. Sixty illustrations. With colored plates by Adelaide H. Bolton.","\nThe Baptist Hymnal (Abridged) for Use in the Church and Home. W. Howard Doane, musical editor. E.H. Johnson, associate editor. Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1883. Stamped on front and back paste-down end papers: Property of Beth-Eden Baptist Church, Allegheny, Pa. Hard cover.","\nThe Chautauqua Collection (Choruses and Part-Songs). Compiled by Arthur Hallam. Cincinnati: The John Church Company, 1915. Deep green cloth with black stamped title.","\nThomas, John J. The American Fruit Culturist: Containing Practical Directions for the Propagation and Culture of all Fruits Adapted to the United States. 21st edition, revised and enlarged by William H. S. Wood. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1920. Green cloth cover, with gold stamped raspberries on front.","\nVan Dyke, Henry. The Blue Flower. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1902. Multi-color cover design, signed within design by Margaret Armstrong.","\nVerne, Jules. The Lighthouse at the End of the World. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1924. Tan cloth with embossed green title, author, and full-rigged ship within frame, in very fine condtion. Dust jacket with colored illustration of ship and lighthouse.","\nWhite, William Allen. A Certain Rich Man. New York: Macmillan, 1909. Green cloth. Title set in gold framed rectangle, sheaves of wheat in gold on cover and spine, author's name in gold.","\nWillson, Marcius. Outlines of History: Illustrated by numerous [G]eographical and Historical Notes and Maps embracing Part I. Ancient History Part II. Modern History. School edition. New York: Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman \u0026 Co., 1868. Dark brown cloth blind embossed with border design and logo of publisher. Black leather spine with gilt stamped title."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_001ac27cc1b24c23f2c58de16cec70c2\"\u003eDr. William D. Barns (1917-1991) was a professor of history at West Virginia University from 1940 to 1985. His fields of specialization were American agriculture and labor history, West Virginia and regional history, American economic history, and the United States since 1860. The material has been divided into three main sections of archives, books, and periodicals, and described to the box level. The contents of this collection were created or collected by Dr. William D. Barns and Mrs. Doretha Barns from the 1920s to 1995. The majority of the material pertains to the academic career of Dr. Barns. Mrs. Barns continued to collect material until 1995. Two large series that relate specifically to Mrs. Barns are the League of Women Voters and Mrs. Doretha Barns. In addition, she contributed to the series on the Federal Government, Miscellaneous, Pacifism, and Society of Friends.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Dr. William D. Barns (1917-1991) was a professor of history at West Virginia University from 1940 to 1985. His fields of specialization were American agriculture and labor history, West Virginia and regional history, American economic history, and the United States since 1860. The material has been divided into three main sections of archives, books, and periodicals, and described to the box level. The contents of this collection were created or collected by Dr. William D. Barns and Mrs. Doretha Barns from the 1920s to 1995. The majority of the material pertains to the academic career of Dr. Barns. Mrs. Barns continued to collect material until 1995. Two large series that relate specifically to Mrs. Barns are the League of Women Voters and Mrs. Doretha Barns. In addition, she contributed to the series on the Federal Government, Miscellaneous, Pacifism, and Society of Friends."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_2823a3380f10a49565d7e7fddb42a24e\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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Barns, Collector, Papers","West Virginia -- Politics and government","West Virginia -- History","Pennsylvania -- History","Pacifism -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends","Agriculture  ","Agriculture   -- West Virginia","Socialism","Economic history -- United States","Labor","West Virginia University  -- History","West Virginia University  -- Students","Requires signed form, since special access restriction applies.","All or part of this collection is stored offsite. Please make an appointment prior to visiting.","Student papers can only be accessed with the permission of a curator.","Dr. William D. Barns (1917-1991) was a professor of history at West Virginia University from 1940 1985. His fields of specialization were American agriculture and labor history, West Virginia and regional history, American economic history, and the United States since 1860. He received his undergraduate and masters degree from Penn State in 1939 and 1940 respectively, and his Ph.D. in History from West Virginia University in 1947. He was involved with several national and state organizations throughout his career, including the American Association of University Professors, the West Virginia Historical Society, and the West Virginia Academy of Science.","processing; 2013/05/02; jcm","\nAdded a box of materials that were pulled out of Barns' books (box 116). Changed the extent from 343 ft. to 343 ft. 5 in. Also updated the contents list excel spreadsheet.","\n--","\n!!scanning; 2013/05/02; jcm","\nBox 116, folder 1 contains photos/photo postcards that could be reviewed for inclusion in WVHOV.","\n--","\ngeneral; 2013/06/02; mt","\nThe extent is now correct. It was part of the most recent Extent Project(Extent Project 7 2014/02/19).","\n--","\nmissing; 2013/06/02; mt","\nThe following boxes were not found when we labeled the boxes several years ago: 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 169, 239, and 284.","\n--","\nlocation; 2013/06/02; mt","\nThe boxes containing serials/books/periodicals were stored on the 4th floor. The boxes were unpacked and moved to the 2nd floor and 3rd floor (Summer 2013 and Winter 2013). And then the materials on the 3rd floor were moved to the 2nd floor (Spring 2014). I think most of the Barns stuff is behind the locked door on the 2nd floor. But there may also be books/serials from this collection in with the unprocessed books on the elevator side of the 2nd floor.","\n--","archives and manuscripts; books and periodicals; pamphlets; photographs / postcards / prints / etc.","The material has been divided into three main sections of archives, books, and periodicals, and described to the box level. The contents of this collection were created or collected by Dr. William D. Barns and Mrs. Doretha Barns from the 1920s to 1995. The majority of the material pertains to the academic career of Dr. Barns. Mrs. Barns continued to collect material until 1995. Two large series that relate specifically to Mrs. Barns are the League of Women Voters and Mrs. Doretha Barns. In addition, she contributed to the series on the Federal Government, Miscellaneous, Pacifism, and Society of Friends.","\nThe archival material in the collection reflects the personal and professional interests of Dr. Barns. Significant series related to his personal interests include the Morgantown \"Society of Friends\" meeting house; \"Pacifism\"; \"Newspaper Clippings\" of local, state, and national events; and \"West Virginia Government.\" Large series related to his professional career include \"West Virginia University\"; \"Professional Career\" (which includes his research notes, articles, and the book he wrote); \"Professional Organizations\" (which he participated in); and material on the \"West Virginia and National Grange.\"","\nArchival material also includes papers of T.C. Atkeson, known for being the national spokesman of the Grange in Washington D.C., 1919-1927. He was born in Putnam County in 1852, in the town of Buffalo, West Virginia. He was dean of the College of Agriculture at WVU from 1897 to 1910, and served as the WV State Grange master for twenty-one years. These papers include correspondence, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, certificates, etc. documenting speeches to Congress, history of the Grange, the WV Grange, among other topics.","\nThe books in the collection include American and West Virginia history books, agriculture books, and many early edition novels. The periodicals are a mixture of academic journals such as  Journal of American Historians  and  West Virginia History ; research periodicals such as the  Pennsylvania Farmer , the  Grange Monthly , and the  Farm Journal ; and periodicals of personal interest to Dr. Barns such as the  Link and Maclean's .","This series includes brochures, newsletters, pamphlets and other misc. printed material from national and West Virginia offices of the ACLU.","This series includes booklets, pamphlets, etc. about national agriculture. All West Virginia agricultural material is in Series 35. West Virginia-History.","This series includes booklets, pamphlets, and rolled material about the Civil War, Revolutionary War, the National Archives and Records Service, and book series \"The Middle Period of American History,\" by Oliver P. Chitwood, etc.","The material in this series pertains to Thomas Clark Atkeson (1852-1935), born in Buffalo, Putnam County WV. Atkeson served as the Dean of the College of Agriculture at West Virginia University (1897-1910), State Grange master for 21 years, and national spokesman for the Grange in Washington D.C. (1919-1927).","This series includes correspondence, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, booklets, certificates, copies of \"West Virginia Agriculturalist\" journal he published. Topics include speeches to congress, history of the Grange, the West Virginia Grange, etc. ","This series consists of solicitation booklets and pamphlets for text books and other reading material.","This series includes maps, brochures, booklets, event programs, and vacation pamphlets, etc., related to Canada. The majority of this material is related to Toronto, Hamilton, and Ontario.","This series consists of Barns's personal and professional correspondence.","This series includes plaques/honors received, framed diplomas, West Virginia Grange certificates, framed organization certificates, cloth, souvenirs from travel, etc..","This series includes newsletters, brochures, reports, and booklets published by federal government agencies, including the Congressional Record, congressional directories, Dept. of Commerce documents, and Subcommittee on Foreign Relations.","This series includes booklets, pamphlets, etc., documenting primarily the Middle East and Western Europe.","This series consists of small notebooks and diaries of daily work and contacts. It also includes notebooks that track time and expenses of specific projects.","This series includes printed material from the League of Women Voters organization, both national and WV material, including minutes from meetings, lists of LWV members, WV newsletter, newspaper clippings, and memorandums. Some of the articles Mrs. Barns wrote and her research materials are included.","This series consists of material collected and written by Mrs. Barns concerning national and international trade in West Virginia, including state and federal statistical reports, her notes, and papers she wrote.","This series includes folded maps and bound atlases of the United States (boxes 83-87) and also railroad maps, bus time tables, misc. time tables, etc. (box 88).","This series includes booklets, student catalogs, school directories, etc., from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Barns was a summer exchange professor at McMaster in 1957, 1959, and 1961.","This series includes pamphlets, booklets, brochures, etc. on nuclear build-ups, the military draft, conscription, and military spending.","This series includes calendars, pamphlets, booklets, brochures, business cards, miscellaneous unsorted mail, etc. (boxes 94a-115). Topics include home improvement material, sewing tips, receipts, how to choose a camera, hospital records, electric company information, income tax information, meet the press transcripts, annual reports from major corporations,  etc.","Boxes 116a-116c include photos, photo postcards, correspondence, clippings, ephemera, and other material removed from books in the collection.","This series consists of personal correspondence, articles Doretha Barnes wrote, papers she wrote while a student in college, and material documenting her run for the West Virginia House of Delegates in the 1960s.","This series includes annual conference programs dating back to the early 1900s, printed booklets, leaflets, pamphlets, songbooks, Grange newspapers, and correspondence between Dr. Barns and the Grange Association. Materials specific to West Virginia were moved to Series 37. West Virginia-Grange History.","This series includes folders on specific topics Dr. Barns followed in the media such as militarism, students, nuclear arms race, etc.. It also folders marked research leads. The majority of the boxes in this series contain miscellaneous unsorted clippings.","This series includes a West Virginia University law school review and several copies of the 100th anniversary edition of the Morgantown Dominion Post.","This series consists of a publication about race relations that switched to a magazine style format in 1949.","This series includes pamphlets, booklets, leaflets, and clippings, etc. documenting conciencious objectors, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the National Council for the Prevention of War, etc..","This series includes booklets, statistical surveys, tourist publications, general and regional histories, etc., related to Pennsylvania.","This series includes photographs of personal family members, Morgantown and West Virginia University, and two glass plate negatives. The microfilm in this series consists of one roll related to the proceedings of the Maryland Grange (1911-1915). The tapes in this series are productions of speeches by foundations outside WV. The video tapes are about politics and speeches given during the Benedum Lecture Series.","This series contains an autobiographical outline of Barns's professional career, research notes, articles he wrote, speeches he gave, and copies of his book on Grange history.","This series includes minutes, correspondence, newsletters, etc., from organizations he belonged to or received material from. Organizations include the West Virginia Historical Society, American Association of University Professors, and the West Virginia Archeological Society, etc..","This series includes one scrapbook of congratulation letters on Barns's retirement in March 1985, one on Canada, and two books of miscellaneoous newspaper clippings.","This series consists of Journal of History special editions on specific topics related to history.","This series includes booklets, pamphlets, newspapers, newsletters, etc. from socialist organizations.","This series includes letters from other meeting groups, items about the local meeting house in Morgantown, and several of the national publications, including literature about the Quaker lifestyle, newsletters, and colleges sponsored by the Society of Friends.","This series includes newsletters produced by the United Nations (UN) and newsletters from other organizations concerning the UN, newspaper clippings, and booklets of reports issued by the UN.","This series Contains publications from universities other than West Virginia University or McMaster University, such as Penn State University, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, and the University of Pittsburgh.","This series includes AAA travel books, maps, brochures, and pamphlets about various sites around the United States of America.","This series includes the Journal of the House of Delegates, copies of the West Virginia constitution, bills and legislative measures, economic impact studies, booklets explaining the role of the WV state government and government offices, booklets listing the House of Delegates appointments in the WV legislature, etc..","This series includes rosters of granges in West Virginia, bulletins, a hard copy edition of Dr. Barns's 1973 book, booklets from various state meetings, etc..","This series includes material related to agriculture in West Virginia, publications by WV authors, three cities booklets, statistical handbooks, political almanacs, and local and regional histories.","This series consists of solicitations from the West Virginia University Alumni Center and the alumni newsletter.","This series includes booklets, forms, programs, etc. on the history of the organization, proceedings of annual meetings, membership applications, etc..","This series consists of university catalogs of undergraduate and graduate class schedules.","This series includes primarily multiple copies of test questions and some notes for class discussion.","This series includes publications, newspaper clippings, notes, etc. regarding people and events related to West Virginia University.","This series includes papers, dissertations, student magazines, completed tests by Barns's students, gradebooks, notes on meetings with students, etc..","This series includes material such as faculty senate minutes, memos from the history department and university library, university wide memos, and printed material about the university.","Fifteen copies of the Monticola, West Virginia University yearbook, separated to A\u0026M 5025 (1971-1984, 1986, 1992 (in boxes 40-41).","\n--","\nWilliam D. Barns Collection books designated for Rare Book Room:","\nAllen, Lewis F. American Cattle: Their History, Breeding and Management. Revised. New York: O. Judd Co., 1887. Bluish green cloth, gilt stamped cow on front cover and decorative title and author in gilt on spine. Bookplate removed.","\nAmerican Wit and Humor. Vol. 1. Philadelphia: Georg W. Jacobs, 1900. Bright and clean navy blue cloth cover, with gilt embossed title and boxed design of six ears of corn on cornstalks.","\nAshby, N. B. The Riddle of the Sphinx: A Discussion of the Economic Questions Relating to Agriculture, land, Transportation, Money, Taxation, and Cost of Interchange. Des Moines, Iowa: Industrial Publishing Co., 1890. Rough-grained maroon cloth. Black embossed borders and corner decorations on front. Gilt stamped sphinx and pyramid on front cover. Gilt lettering and black design on spine. Floral endpapers.","\nAtherton, Gertrude. California: An Intimate History. New York: Harper, 1914. First edition with K-O on copyright page. Decorative cover, no dust jacket.","\nAtkeson, Thomas Clark. A Catechism of Agriculture: Illustrated. New York: Orange Judd, 1913. Chocolate brown grain cloth. Embossed design at top and bottom of covers. Title and author stamped in white in box on front cover and on spine. Very, very fine condition.","\nAtkeson, Thomas Clark. Semi-Centennial History of the Patrons of Husbandry. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1915. Chocolate brown cloth, with gilt embossed lettering on front cover and spine. Minor wear at bottom corners and bottom of spine, otherwise like-new copy of book by a West Virginia author.","\nAtkeson, Thomas Clark. Semi-Centennial History of the Patrons of Husbandry. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1915. Chocolate brown cloth, with gilt embossed lettering on front cover and spine. Stained all around edges of front cover and entire spine, book by a West Virginia author.","\nBailey, L. H. The Horticulturist's Rule Book: A Compendium of Useful Information for Fruit-Growers, Truck-Gardeners, Florists and Others; Completed to the Beginning of the Year 1892. 2nd edition, revised. New York: Rural Publishing Company, 1892. Deep brown grain cloth cover, with embossed decoration at top and bottom of front cover. Gold stamped title, vine, watering can, hoe, and rake.","\nBlackmore, R. D. Lorna Doone, A Novel. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, [date not stated, circa 1900]. White half-paper decorated in gilt-highlighted violets; white cloth spine elaborately decorated in gilt title, author, publisher, and floral designs; all three edges gilt; corners and fore-edge of paper cover chipped.","\nBridgeman, Thomas. The American Gardener's Assistant, In Three Parts: Containing Complete Practical Directions for the Cultivation of Vegetables, Flowers, Fruit Trees, and Grape-Vines. New edition revised, enlarged, and illustrated by S. Edwards Todd. Philadelphia: Porter \u0026 Coates, 1866. Smooth-grained brown cloth. Black embossed borders with decorations on front cover, blind embossed on back cover. Gilt stamped wreath on front cover. Gold stamped agricultural tools and watering can, with black and gold decorations and gold lettering, on spine.","\nBuck, Pearl S. Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul. New York: Triangle Books, 1939, reprinted April 1940. Hard cover, light blue faded by water spots, dust jacket in good condition. Owner's bookplate.","\nBuck, Solon J. The Agrarian Crusade: A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920. Volume 45: The Chronicles of America Series. Extra-Illustrated edition. Smooth-grained maroon cloth cover. Borders, title, and author in gold on cover and spine. Highly ornate tablet in gold with white and black eagle and four open books on front cover. Gold decoration with open book on spine.","\nButler, Frederick. The farmer's manual : being a plain practical treatise on the art of husbandry, designed to promote an acquaintance with the modern improvements in agriculture, together with remarks on gardening, and a treatise on the management of bees. Weathersfield [Conn.]: Published by the author, 1821. Lacks covers. Title page partially missing and stained. Extremely fragile.","\nCachia, Anthony J. Libya under the Second Ottoman Occupation (1835-1911). Tripoli: Government Press, 1945. Signed by author and by Howard J. Forbes, previous owner.","\nCobb, Irvin S. Roughing It De Luxe. Illustrated by John T. McCutcheon. New York: George H. Doran, 1914. Violet brown cloth. Title and author in gilt on front cover and spine. Black and white label at top of front cover picturing Santa Fe railway train with man perched atop the steam locomotive.","\nCobleigh, Rolfe. Handy farm Devices and How to Make Them. (Farm Life Series) New York: Orange Judd Company, 1910. Olive green cloth cover, with black title, author, series, borders, and wheat designs stamped.","\nConnor, Ralph. The Major. New York: George H. Doran, 1917. Bright and clean blue cloth cover, with embossed raised figure of a soldier and raised gilt title.","\nConnor, Ralph. The Man From Glengarry: A Tale of the Ottawa. Special edition limited to 50,000 copies. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1901. Rust brown cloth cover. Title and author in black on front cover and spine. Tan outline of man standing on logs in a tree-lined river, with tan and black sky in background.","\nConnor, Ralph. The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land. New York: George H. Doran, 1919. Dark blue cloth. Four blind-embossed soldiers and leafless tree on front cover, with title, author, and flames in orange.","\nConnor, Ralph. The Sky Pilot: A Tale of the Foothills. Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, 1901. Dark tan cloth. Title and author in red on cover and spine. Standing man with sombrero and ammunition belt in navy blue on cover.","\nde Valette, Marc. La Methode Directe pour L'Enseignement des Langues Vivantes a l'aide des Tableaux Auxiliaires. Deuxieme livre. Deuxieme edition. Edinburgh: Printed at the Ballantyne Press, [1910?]. Dark green cloth, gilt stamped title on cover and spine, gilt stamped decorative design of a sower in front of rising sun, fleur de lis embossed rows at top and bottom of front cover.","\nDecorum: A Practical Treatise on Etiquette \u0026 Dress of the Best American Society, 1879. With illustrations and captions from Hill's Manual of Business and Social Forms. Westvaco Corporation, 1979. Clean and bright red-orange cloth covers, in decorative slip case.","\nDickens, Charles. Bleak House. New York: Mershon Company, [1890s-1900s?] Maroon cloth. Blind stamped with designs of three elaborate hinges on front and back covers.","\nEllsworth, Henry W. The American Swine Breeder: A Practical Treatise on the Selection, Rearing and Fattening of Swine. Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Company; Philadelphia: Hogan and Thompson, 1840. Brown cloth grain cover, with embossed design and gilt stamped spine.","\nFarjeon, Eleanor, and Herbert Farjeon. Kings and Queens. Illustrated by Rosalind Thornycroft. New York: E.P. Dutton, [no date]. Clean and bright paper cover with colored illustration of a king and a queen surrounded by red draperies, same design in same colors on dust jacket.","\nFarm Conveniences: A Practical Hand-Book for the Farm. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1884. Profusely illustrated. Olive green cloth with title and sickle stamped in gold on front cover and title and farming tools in gold on spine. Black lined tools and wheat on front cover. Bookplate of the Library of the West Virginia Experiment Station inside front cover. Decorative end papers.","\nFarm Implement News Buyer's Guide: Where to Purchase Farm Implements, Machines and Vehicles. Vol. III. Chicago: Farm Implement News Company, 1891. Numerous illustrations of farm machinery throughout, and advertising on endpapers. Olive green cloth cover, with title, publisher, and advertising stamped in black.","\nFox, John, Jr. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1906. Bright and clean burgundy cloth cover, with embossed white title.","\nFullerton, Edith Loring. How to Make a Vegetable Garden: A Practical and Suggestive Manual for the Home Garden. Illustrated by H. B. Fullerton. New York: Doubleday, Page \u0026 Co., 1905. Light green cloth, with title and borders in black. Front cover with photograph label of woman tilling a garden.","\nHale, Philip H. The Book of Live Stock Champions, Being an Artistic Souvenir Supplement of the Monthly National Farmer and Stock Grower. St. Louis: Philip Henry Hale, 1912. Bright blue cloth cover, gilt border and lettering on front. Like new condition.","\nHalevy, Ludovic. The Abbe Constantin. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, [date not stated, circa 1900]. Cloth covers with pink background, silver title, floral design with silver stems and green leaves, formed into wreath on front cover, soiled, worn at spine top and bottom; decorative half title and title pages.","\nHarris, Joseph. Talks on Manures: A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks. New and Enlarged edition. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1902. Chocolate brown cloth cover, embossed with designs. Gilt stamped shovel and pitchfork on front cover.","\nHarvey, William Hope. The Remedy. Chicago: Mundus Publishing Co., 1915. Marron cloth. Like new condition of a rarely seen book written by a West Virginia author, inscribed by author.","\nHello Bill! A Book of After Dinner Stories. New York: H. M. Caldwell, 1911. Bright and clean purple cloth cover, with white title, clock, and antlered deer.","\nHenderson, Peter. Gardening for Profit: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of the Market and Family Garden. New and enlarged edition. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1884. Green cloth, embossed with designs, bright gilt cabbage on front cover, gilt stamped title and publisher on spine. Clean with minimal wear and several small spots on cover.","\nHenderson, Peter. Gardening for Profit: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of the Market and Family Garden. New and enlarged edition. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1874. Green cloth, embossed with designs, gilt cabbage on front cover, gilt stamped title and publisher on spine. Worn, soiled and stained, but sound.","\nHenderson, Peter. Practical Floriculture: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of Florist's Plants, for the Amateur and Professional Florist. New and enlarged edition. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1897. Green cloth. Embossed design and gilt stamped title on front cover. Gilt stamped title, author, and publisher names on spine. Floral end papers.","\nHough, Emerson. Fifty-four Forty or Fight. With illustrations by Arthur I. Keller. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1909. Bright and clean dark olive green cloth cover, with embossed geometrical designs and yellow title background.","\nKelley, O. H. Origin and Progress of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry in the United States; A History from 1863 to 1873. Philadelphia: J. A. Wagenseller, 1875. Title, author, and sickle gold stamped on spine.","\nLongfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, [date not stated, circa 1900]. Gray-brown cloth, orange \"L\" within wreath, acorn and orange oak leaf design on spine and five on front cover, black embossed title and author. Soiled and foxed.","\nLucas, Daniel B., and J. Fairfax McLaughlin. Fisher Ames-Henry Clay, etc. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1891. West Virginia author, sound text, and clean black cloth cover.","\nMartin, Edward Winslow. History of the Grange Movement; or, The Farmer's War Against Monopolies: being... a History of the Rise and Progress of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry... Philadelphia: National Publishing Co., 1873. Leather cover, embossed borders, black and gold title label on spine, marbled end papers.","\nMichel, Louise. La Commune. Bibliotheque Sociologique. 8th edition. Paris: Librarie P. V. Stock, 1921. Paper wrappers.","\nMontgomery, E. G. Productive Farm Crops. (Lippincott's Farm Manuals) Philadelphia: J.B Lippincott Company, 1918. Dark tan cloth, decorated in green lettering and vegetable vignettes, with orange background. Lightly marbled edges. Condition very fine, but interior foxed.","\nMorrell, L. A. The American Shepherd: Being a History of the Sheep, with their Breeds, Management, and Diseases. ... New York: Harper \u0026 Brothers, 1845. Brown cloth cover, embossed with a pattern and a blind-embossed design of a circle with arrows protruding from top and bottom.","\nNolan, Aretas W. One Hundred lessons in Elementary Agriculture. Morgantown, WV: Acme Publishing Co., 1908. Dark brown cloth. Like new condition of a rarely seen book published in Morgantown.","\nOrr, James L. The National Grange Choir, Published by the Executive Committee of the National Grange, for use in the Granges of the United States. Philadelphia: Printed by J. A. Wagenseller, 1883. Oblong shaped book, music scores and lyrics.","\nOur Homes: How to Beautify Them. New York: O. Judd Co., 1887. Blue green cloth, with embossed border design. Gilt stamped spine with title, publisher, peacock feathers, flowers, and leaves.","\nPackard, S. S., and H. B. Bryant. The New Bryant and Stratton Common School Book-Keeping: Embracing Single and Double Entry. ... New York: American Book Company, 1878. Grey-taupe cloth cover, deeply embossed with elaborate designs, black stamped on front cover and blind on back. Includes publisher's symbol black embossed in center of front cover. Condition very fine.","\nRandall, Henry S. The Practical Shepherd: A Complete Treatise on the Breeding, Management and Diseases of Sheep. Nineteenth edition. Rochester, NY: D.D.T. Moore, 1864. Deep green cloth, blind embossed designs, embossed gilt stamped sheep on front cover, blind embossed sheep on back cover, gilt lettering and sheep on spine.","\nRandall, Henry S. The Practical Shepherd: A Complete Treatise on the Breeding, Management and Diseases of Sheep. Thirty-first edition. New York: The American News Company, 1863. Brown-orange cloth, embossed designs in black, bright gilt stamped sheep on cover, and black and gilt lettering on spine. Bumped corners, soiled spine, otherwise very nice condition.","\nRead, John E. Farming for Profit: A Hand-Book for the American Farmer. Philadelphia: P. W. Ziegler, 1882, c1880. Elaborately illustrated front cover, black embossed images of tools, crops, livestock, poultry, horse drawn carriage, basket, and gilt stamped title, plow, and basket. Same image on back but lacking gold. Spine similarly illustrated with cow's head and farming machinery.","\nRevell, Nellie. The Funny Side Out: After, Before and During Dinner Stories with Apologies to Whoever First Told Them. New York: George H. Doran, 1925. Red cloth with black lettering and design. Multiple figures, men and women, each occupying a diamond in a latticework design. Cover signed IRB (?).","\nRiley, James Whitcomb. Riley Farm-Rhymes. With country pictures by Will Vawter. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1905. Pink-orange cloth. Title and author on cover brown outlined in black. Spine includes ear of corn, with kernels in brown. Worm holes aligned with hinge between front cover and spine.","\nRobinson, Rowland E. Uncle Lisha's Shop and a Danvis Pioneer. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1933. Elaborate stamped turtle shell pattern on deep green cloth. Also gilt stamped pine branch and author's name on front cover. Gilt stamped lettering on spine. Very fine condition.","\nRoot, A. I., and E. R. Root. The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture.: A Cyclopedia of Everything Pertaining to the Care of the Honey-bee ... Medina, Ohio: The A. I. Root Company, 1910. Black cloth cover, blind embossed with title on front and back, and gold stamped 2.5 inch bee on front cover. Floral endpapers.","\nRowlands, Walter. Among the Great Masters of Painting: Scenes in the Lives of Famous Painters. Boston: Dana Estes, 1901. Clean and bright white cloth cover, with embossed gilt title, columns, and artist's palette.","\nRUS : A Biographical Register of Rural Leadership in the United States and Canada. Compiled by L.H. Bailey and Ethel Zoe Bailey. \"Fourth issue.\" Ithaca, NY, 1930. Tan cloth with black title, date, four stars, and design of scythes and sickles.","\nRus: A Biographical Register of Rural Leadership in the United States and Canada. Compiled by L. H. Bailey and Ethel Zoe Bailey. Ithaca, N.Y., 1925. \"Rus\" is Latin for \"the country.\" Decorative cloth cover.","\nScott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe, A Romance. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, [date not stated, circa 1900]. Light green cloth, clean, with multi-colored depiction of jousting knights with castle and trees in background. Author's name in black, and title in yellow-orange, outlined in black. Sword and crossed lances on spine.","\nSheppard, Muriel Earley. Cloud by Day: A Story of Coal and Coke and People. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1947. Bright and clean black cloth cover, with pictorial dust jacket.","\nStephens, C. A. Haps and Mishaps at the Old Farm. Norway, Maine: The Old Squire's Bookstore, 1925. Deep brown cloth with red lettering and maroon lines. With illustrated end papers and frontispiece.","\nStephens, C. A. My Folks in Maine. Norway, Maine: The Old Squire's Bookstore, 1934. Tan cloth with light tan lettering and lines. With illustrated end papers and frontispiece.","\nStephens, C. A. Katahdin Camps. Norway, Maine: The Old Squire's Bookstore, 1928. With illustrations by Jacob Bates Abbott. Mossy green cloth with dark green lettering and lines. Illustrated end papers.","\nStiles, Kent B. Stamps: An Outline of Philately. Illustrated by numerous photographs. New York: Harper \u0026 Brothers, 1929. Third printing. Bright orange cloth, with black lettering, very modest wear and soil.","\nStuart, Jesse. The Thread that Runs so True. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. Rust brown cloth in very fine condition. Signed by author. Dust jacket with title: The Thread That Runs so True: A Mountain School-teacher Tells His Story.","\nTarkington, Booth. Beasley's Christmas Party. Illustrated by Ruth Sypherd Clements. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1909. Title page and numerous illustrations in color. Deep red cloth. Blind embossed design of holly leaves and berries on front cover. Title and author lettering gilt stamped on front cover and spine.","\nTarkington, Booth. The Conquest of Canaan: A Novel. Illustrations by Lucius W. Hitchcock. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1905. Red-orange cloth. Gold stamped title and spine with decorative frame incorporating leaves and flowers.","\nTarkington, Booth. The Midlander. Garden City: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1924. Olive green cloth, with author, title, and frame stamped in gold. Dust jacket includes artist's cityscape on front, photo portrait of Tarkington on back, and list on the inside of publisher's other fiction books.","\nTerry, T. B. Our Farming; or, How We have Made a Run-down Farm Bring Both Profit and Pleasure; Potato, Wheat, and Clover Culture, Tillage, Tile Drainage, Manure Saving, etc., etc.; Treated Independently from A to Z. Philadelphia: The Farmer Company, 1893. Maroon cloth. Title stamped in gold on cover and spine. Some internal foxing.","\nThe Arabian Nights. Orton Lowe, editor. Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 1924. Red cloth cover, with full size paper label on front cover bearing title and colored illustration of scene from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Illustrated end papers. Sixty illustrations. With colored plates by Adelaide H. Bolton.","\nThe Baptist Hymnal (Abridged) for Use in the Church and Home. W. Howard Doane, musical editor. E.H. Johnson, associate editor. Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1883. Stamped on front and back paste-down end papers: Property of Beth-Eden Baptist Church, Allegheny, Pa. Hard cover.","\nThe Chautauqua Collection (Choruses and Part-Songs). Compiled by Arthur Hallam. Cincinnati: The John Church Company, 1915. Deep green cloth with black stamped title.","\nThomas, John J. The American Fruit Culturist: Containing Practical Directions for the Propagation and Culture of all Fruits Adapted to the United States. 21st edition, revised and enlarged by William H. S. Wood. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1920. Green cloth cover, with gold stamped raspberries on front.","\nVan Dyke, Henry. The Blue Flower. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1902. Multi-color cover design, signed within design by Margaret Armstrong.","\nVerne, Jules. The Lighthouse at the End of the World. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1924. Tan cloth with embossed green title, author, and full-rigged ship within frame, in very fine condtion. Dust jacket with colored illustration of ship and lighthouse.","\nWhite, William Allen. A Certain Rich Man. New York: Macmillan, 1909. Green cloth. Title set in gold framed rectangle, sheaves of wheat in gold on cover and spine, author's name in gold.","\nWillson, Marcius. Outlines of History: Illustrated by numerous [G]eographical and Historical Notes and Maps embracing Part I. Ancient History Part II. Modern History. School edition. New York: Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman \u0026 Co., 1868. Dark brown cloth blind embossed with border design and logo of publisher. Black leather spine with gilt stamped title.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Dr. William D. Barns (1917-1991) was a professor of history at West Virginia University from 1940 to 1985. His fields of specialization were American agriculture and labor history, West Virginia and regional history, American economic history, and the United States since 1860. The material has been divided into three main sections of archives, books, and periodicals, and described to the box level. The contents of this collection were created or collected by Dr. William D. Barns and Mrs. Doretha Barns from the 1920s to 1995. The majority of the material pertains to the academic career of Dr. Barns. Mrs. Barns continued to collect material until 1995. Two large series that relate specifically to Mrs. Barns are the League of Women Voters and Mrs. Doretha Barns. In addition, she contributed to the series on the Federal Government, Miscellaneous, Pacifism, and Society of Friends.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/","West Virginia and Regional History Center","League of Women Voters (U.S.)","League of Women Voters (U.S.). Morgantown-Monongalia Branch","Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Morgantown Friends Meeting","West Virginia University. 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It was part of the most recent Extent Project(Extent Project 7 2014/02/19).","\n--","\nmissing; 2013/06/02; mt","\nThe following boxes were not found when we labeled the boxes several years ago: 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 169, 239, and 284.","\n--","\nlocation; 2013/06/02; mt","\nThe boxes containing serials/books/periodicals were stored on the 4th floor. The boxes were unpacked and moved to the 2nd floor and 3rd floor (Summer 2013 and Winter 2013). And then the materials on the 3rd floor were moved to the 2nd floor (Spring 2014). I think most of the Barns stuff is behind the locked door on the 2nd floor. But there may also be books/serials from this collection in with the unprocessed books on the elevator side of the 2nd floor.","\n--","archives and manuscripts; books and periodicals; pamphlets; photographs / postcards / prints / etc."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], William D. 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In addition, she contributed to the series on the Federal Government, Miscellaneous, Pacifism, and Society of Friends.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe archival material in the collection reflects the personal and professional interests of Dr. Barns. Significant series related to his personal interests include the Morgantown \"Society of Friends\" meeting house; \"Pacifism\"; \"Newspaper Clippings\" of local, state, and national events; and \"West Virginia Government.\" Large series related to his professional career include \"West Virginia University\"; \"Professional Career\" (which includes his research notes, articles, and the book he wrote); \"Professional Organizations\" (which he participated in); and material on the \"West Virginia and National Grange.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nArchival material also includes papers of T.C. Atkeson, known for being the national spokesman of the Grange in Washington D.C., 1919-1927. He was born in Putnam County in 1852, in the town of Buffalo, West Virginia. He was dean of the College of Agriculture at WVU from 1897 to 1910, and served as the WV State Grange master for twenty-one years. These papers include correspondence, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, certificates, etc. documenting speeches to Congress, history of the Grange, the WV Grange, among other topics.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe books in the collection include American and West Virginia history books, agriculture books, and many early edition novels. The periodicals are a mixture of academic journals such as \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eJournal of American Historians\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia History\u003c/emph\u003e; research periodicals such as the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003ePennsylvania Farmer\u003c/emph\u003e, the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGrange Monthly\u003c/emph\u003e, and the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eFarm Journal\u003c/emph\u003e; and periodicals of personal interest to Dr. Barns such as the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eLink and Maclean's\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes brochures, newsletters, pamphlets and other misc. printed material from national and West Virginia offices of the ACLU.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes booklets, pamphlets, etc. about national agriculture. All West Virginia agricultural material is in Series 35. West Virginia-History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes booklets, pamphlets, and rolled material about the Civil War, Revolutionary War, the National Archives and Records Service, and book series \"The Middle Period of American History,\" by Oliver P. Chitwood, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe material in this series pertains to Thomas Clark Atkeson (1852-1935), born in Buffalo, Putnam County WV. Atkeson served as the Dean of the College of Agriculture at West Virginia University (1897-1910), State Grange master for 21 years, and national spokesman for the Grange in Washington D.C. (1919-1927).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes correspondence, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, booklets, certificates, copies of \"West Virginia Agriculturalist\" journal he published. Topics include speeches to congress, history of the Grange, the West Virginia Grange, etc. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of solicitation booklets and pamphlets for text books and other reading material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes maps, brochures, booklets, event programs, and vacation pamphlets, etc., related to Canada. The majority of this material is related to Toronto, Hamilton, and Ontario.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of Barns's personal and professional correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes plaques/honors received, framed diplomas, West Virginia Grange certificates, framed organization certificates, cloth, souvenirs from travel, etc..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes newsletters, brochures, reports, and booklets published by federal government agencies, including the Congressional Record, congressional directories, Dept. of Commerce documents, and Subcommittee on Foreign Relations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes booklets, pamphlets, etc., documenting primarily the Middle East and Western Europe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of small notebooks and diaries of daily work and contacts. It also includes notebooks that track time and expenses of specific projects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes printed material from the League of Women Voters organization, both national and WV material, including minutes from meetings, lists of LWV members, WV newsletter, newspaper clippings, and memorandums. Some of the articles Mrs. Barns wrote and her research materials are included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of material collected and written by Mrs. Barns concerning national and international trade in West Virginia, including state and federal statistical reports, her notes, and papers she wrote.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes folded maps and bound atlases of the United States (boxes 83-87) and also railroad maps, bus time tables, misc. time tables, etc. (box 88).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes booklets, student catalogs, school directories, etc., from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Barns was a summer exchange professor at McMaster in 1957, 1959, and 1961.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes pamphlets, booklets, brochures, etc. on nuclear build-ups, the military draft, conscription, and military spending.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes calendars, pamphlets, booklets, brochures, business cards, miscellaneous unsorted mail, etc. (boxes 94a-115). Topics include home improvement material, sewing tips, receipts, how to choose a camera, hospital records, electric company information, income tax information, meet the press transcripts, annual reports from major corporations,  etc.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 116a-116c include photos, photo postcards, correspondence, clippings, ephemera, and other material removed from books in the collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of personal correspondence, articles Doretha Barnes wrote, papers she wrote while a student in college, and material documenting her run for the West Virginia House of Delegates in the 1960s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes annual conference programs dating back to the early 1900s, printed booklets, leaflets, pamphlets, songbooks, Grange newspapers, and correspondence between Dr. Barns and the Grange Association. Materials specific to West Virginia were moved to Series 37. West Virginia-Grange History.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes folders on specific topics Dr. Barns followed in the media such as militarism, students, nuclear arms race, etc.. It also folders marked research leads. The majority of the boxes in this series contain miscellaneous unsorted clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes a West Virginia University law school review and several copies of the 100th anniversary edition of the Morgantown Dominion Post.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of a publication about race relations that switched to a magazine style format in 1949.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes pamphlets, booklets, leaflets, and clippings, etc. documenting conciencious objectors, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the National Council for the Prevention of War, etc..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes booklets, statistical surveys, tourist publications, general and regional histories, etc., related to Pennsylvania.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes photographs of personal family members, Morgantown and West Virginia University, and two glass plate negatives. The microfilm in this series consists of one roll related to the proceedings of the Maryland Grange (1911-1915). The tapes in this series are productions of speeches by foundations outside WV. The video tapes are about politics and speeches given during the Benedum Lecture Series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains an autobiographical outline of Barns's professional career, research notes, articles he wrote, speeches he gave, and copies of his book on Grange history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes minutes, correspondence, newsletters, etc., from organizations he belonged to or received material from. Organizations include the West Virginia Historical Society, American Association of University Professors, and the West Virginia Archeological Society, etc..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes one scrapbook of congratulation letters on Barns's retirement in March 1985, one on Canada, and two books of miscellaneoous newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of Journal of History special editions on specific topics related to history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes booklets, pamphlets, newspapers, newsletters, etc. from socialist organizations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes letters from other meeting groups, items about the local meeting house in Morgantown, and several of the national publications, including literature about the Quaker lifestyle, newsletters, and colleges sponsored by the Society of Friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes newsletters produced by the United Nations (UN) and newsletters from other organizations concerning the UN, newspaper clippings, and booklets of reports issued by the UN.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series Contains publications from universities other than West Virginia University or McMaster University, such as Penn State University, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, and the University of Pittsburgh.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes AAA travel books, maps, brochures, and pamphlets about various sites around the United States of America.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes the Journal of the House of Delegates, copies of the West Virginia constitution, bills and legislative measures, economic impact studies, booklets explaining the role of the WV state government and government offices, booklets listing the House of Delegates appointments in the WV legislature, etc..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes rosters of granges in West Virginia, bulletins, a hard copy edition of Dr. Barns's 1973 book, booklets from various state meetings, etc..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes material related to agriculture in West Virginia, publications by WV authors, three cities booklets, statistical handbooks, political almanacs, and local and regional histories.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of solicitations from the West Virginia University Alumni Center and the alumni newsletter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes booklets, forms, programs, etc. on the history of the organization, proceedings of annual meetings, membership applications, etc..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of university catalogs of undergraduate and graduate class schedules.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes primarily multiple copies of test questions and some notes for class discussion.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes publications, newspaper clippings, notes, etc. regarding people and events related to West Virginia University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes papers, dissertations, student magazines, completed tests by Barns's students, gradebooks, notes on meetings with students, etc..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes material such as faculty senate minutes, memos from the history department and university library, university wide memos, and printed material about the university.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The material has been divided into three main sections of archives, books, and periodicals, and described to the box level. The contents of this collection were created or collected by Dr. William D. Barns and Mrs. Doretha Barns from the 1920s to 1995. The majority of the material pertains to the academic career of Dr. Barns. Mrs. Barns continued to collect material until 1995. Two large series that relate specifically to Mrs. Barns are the League of Women Voters and Mrs. Doretha Barns. In addition, she contributed to the series on the Federal Government, Miscellaneous, Pacifism, and Society of Friends.","\nThe archival material in the collection reflects the personal and professional interests of Dr. Barns. Significant series related to his personal interests include the Morgantown \"Society of Friends\" meeting house; \"Pacifism\"; \"Newspaper Clippings\" of local, state, and national events; and \"West Virginia Government.\" Large series related to his professional career include \"West Virginia University\"; \"Professional Career\" (which includes his research notes, articles, and the book he wrote); \"Professional Organizations\" (which he participated in); and material on the \"West Virginia and National Grange.\"","\nArchival material also includes papers of T.C. Atkeson, known for being the national spokesman of the Grange in Washington D.C., 1919-1927. He was born in Putnam County in 1852, in the town of Buffalo, West Virginia. He was dean of the College of Agriculture at WVU from 1897 to 1910, and served as the WV State Grange master for twenty-one years. These papers include correspondence, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, certificates, etc. documenting speeches to Congress, history of the Grange, the WV Grange, among other topics.","\nThe books in the collection include American and West Virginia history books, agriculture books, and many early edition novels. The periodicals are a mixture of academic journals such as  Journal of American Historians  and  West Virginia History ; research periodicals such as the  Pennsylvania Farmer , the  Grange Monthly , and the  Farm Journal ; and periodicals of personal interest to Dr. Barns such as the  Link and Maclean's .","This series includes brochures, newsletters, pamphlets and other misc. printed material from national and West Virginia offices of the ACLU.","This series includes booklets, pamphlets, etc. about national agriculture. All West Virginia agricultural material is in Series 35. West Virginia-History.","This series includes booklets, pamphlets, and rolled material about the Civil War, Revolutionary War, the National Archives and Records Service, and book series \"The Middle Period of American History,\" by Oliver P. Chitwood, etc.","The material in this series pertains to Thomas Clark Atkeson (1852-1935), born in Buffalo, Putnam County WV. Atkeson served as the Dean of the College of Agriculture at West Virginia University (1897-1910), State Grange master for 21 years, and national spokesman for the Grange in Washington D.C. (1919-1927).","This series includes correspondence, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, booklets, certificates, copies of \"West Virginia Agriculturalist\" journal he published. Topics include speeches to congress, history of the Grange, the West Virginia Grange, etc. ","This series consists of solicitation booklets and pamphlets for text books and other reading material.","This series includes maps, brochures, booklets, event programs, and vacation pamphlets, etc., related to Canada. The majority of this material is related to Toronto, Hamilton, and Ontario.","This series consists of Barns's personal and professional correspondence.","This series includes plaques/honors received, framed diplomas, West Virginia Grange certificates, framed organization certificates, cloth, souvenirs from travel, etc..","This series includes newsletters, brochures, reports, and booklets published by federal government agencies, including the Congressional Record, congressional directories, Dept. of Commerce documents, and Subcommittee on Foreign Relations.","This series includes booklets, pamphlets, etc., documenting primarily the Middle East and Western Europe.","This series consists of small notebooks and diaries of daily work and contacts. It also includes notebooks that track time and expenses of specific projects.","This series includes printed material from the League of Women Voters organization, both national and WV material, including minutes from meetings, lists of LWV members, WV newsletter, newspaper clippings, and memorandums. Some of the articles Mrs. Barns wrote and her research materials are included.","This series consists of material collected and written by Mrs. Barns concerning national and international trade in West Virginia, including state and federal statistical reports, her notes, and papers she wrote.","This series includes folded maps and bound atlases of the United States (boxes 83-87) and also railroad maps, bus time tables, misc. time tables, etc. (box 88).","This series includes booklets, student catalogs, school directories, etc., from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Barns was a summer exchange professor at McMaster in 1957, 1959, and 1961.","This series includes pamphlets, booklets, brochures, etc. on nuclear build-ups, the military draft, conscription, and military spending.","This series includes calendars, pamphlets, booklets, brochures, business cards, miscellaneous unsorted mail, etc. (boxes 94a-115). Topics include home improvement material, sewing tips, receipts, how to choose a camera, hospital records, electric company information, income tax information, meet the press transcripts, annual reports from major corporations,  etc.","Boxes 116a-116c include photos, photo postcards, correspondence, clippings, ephemera, and other material removed from books in the collection.","This series consists of personal correspondence, articles Doretha Barnes wrote, papers she wrote while a student in college, and material documenting her run for the West Virginia House of Delegates in the 1960s.","This series includes annual conference programs dating back to the early 1900s, printed booklets, leaflets, pamphlets, songbooks, Grange newspapers, and correspondence between Dr. Barns and the Grange Association. Materials specific to West Virginia were moved to Series 37. West Virginia-Grange History.","This series includes folders on specific topics Dr. Barns followed in the media such as militarism, students, nuclear arms race, etc.. It also folders marked research leads. The majority of the boxes in this series contain miscellaneous unsorted clippings.","This series includes a West Virginia University law school review and several copies of the 100th anniversary edition of the Morgantown Dominion Post.","This series consists of a publication about race relations that switched to a magazine style format in 1949.","This series includes pamphlets, booklets, leaflets, and clippings, etc. documenting conciencious objectors, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the National Council for the Prevention of War, etc..","This series includes booklets, statistical surveys, tourist publications, general and regional histories, etc., related to Pennsylvania.","This series includes photographs of personal family members, Morgantown and West Virginia University, and two glass plate negatives. The microfilm in this series consists of one roll related to the proceedings of the Maryland Grange (1911-1915). The tapes in this series are productions of speeches by foundations outside WV. The video tapes are about politics and speeches given during the Benedum Lecture Series.","This series contains an autobiographical outline of Barns's professional career, research notes, articles he wrote, speeches he gave, and copies of his book on Grange history.","This series includes minutes, correspondence, newsletters, etc., from organizations he belonged to or received material from. Organizations include the West Virginia Historical Society, American Association of University Professors, and the West Virginia Archeological Society, etc..","This series includes one scrapbook of congratulation letters on Barns's retirement in March 1985, one on Canada, and two books of miscellaneoous newspaper clippings.","This series consists of Journal of History special editions on specific topics related to history.","This series includes booklets, pamphlets, newspapers, newsletters, etc. from socialist organizations.","This series includes letters from other meeting groups, items about the local meeting house in Morgantown, and several of the national publications, including literature about the Quaker lifestyle, newsletters, and colleges sponsored by the Society of Friends.","This series includes newsletters produced by the United Nations (UN) and newsletters from other organizations concerning the UN, newspaper clippings, and booklets of reports issued by the UN.","This series Contains publications from universities other than West Virginia University or McMaster University, such as Penn State University, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, and the University of Pittsburgh.","This series includes AAA travel books, maps, brochures, and pamphlets about various sites around the United States of America.","This series includes the Journal of the House of Delegates, copies of the West Virginia constitution, bills and legislative measures, economic impact studies, booklets explaining the role of the WV state government and government offices, booklets listing the House of Delegates appointments in the WV legislature, etc..","This series includes rosters of granges in West Virginia, bulletins, a hard copy edition of Dr. Barns's 1973 book, booklets from various state meetings, etc..","This series includes material related to agriculture in West Virginia, publications by WV authors, three cities booklets, statistical handbooks, political almanacs, and local and regional histories.","This series consists of solicitations from the West Virginia University Alumni Center and the alumni newsletter.","This series includes booklets, forms, programs, etc. on the history of the organization, proceedings of annual meetings, membership applications, etc..","This series consists of university catalogs of undergraduate and graduate class schedules.","This series includes primarily multiple copies of test questions and some notes for class discussion.","This series includes publications, newspaper clippings, notes, etc. regarding people and events related to West Virginia University.","This series includes papers, dissertations, student magazines, completed tests by Barns's students, gradebooks, notes on meetings with students, etc..","This series includes material such as faculty senate minutes, memos from the history department and university library, university wide memos, and printed material about the university."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eFifteen copies of the Monticola, West Virginia University yearbook, separated to A\u0026amp;M 5025 (1971-1984, 1986, 1992 (in boxes 40-41).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\n--\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nWilliam D. Barns Collection books designated for Rare Book Room:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAllen, Lewis F. American Cattle: Their History, Breeding and Management. Revised. New York: O. Judd Co., 1887. Bluish green cloth, gilt stamped cow on front cover and decorative title and author in gilt on spine. Bookplate removed.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAmerican Wit and Humor. Vol. 1. Philadelphia: Georg W. Jacobs, 1900. Bright and clean navy blue cloth cover, with gilt embossed title and boxed design of six ears of corn on cornstalks.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAshby, N. B. The Riddle of the Sphinx: A Discussion of the Economic Questions Relating to Agriculture, land, Transportation, Money, Taxation, and Cost of Interchange. Des Moines, Iowa: Industrial Publishing Co., 1890. Rough-grained maroon cloth. Black embossed borders and corner decorations on front. Gilt stamped sphinx and pyramid on front cover. Gilt lettering and black design on spine. Floral endpapers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAtherton, Gertrude. California: An Intimate History. New York: Harper, 1914. First edition with K-O on copyright page. Decorative cover, no dust jacket.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAtkeson, Thomas Clark. A Catechism of Agriculture: Illustrated. New York: Orange Judd, 1913. Chocolate brown grain cloth. Embossed design at top and bottom of covers. Title and author stamped in white in box on front cover and on spine. Very, very fine condition.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAtkeson, Thomas Clark. Semi-Centennial History of the Patrons of Husbandry. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1915. Chocolate brown cloth, with gilt embossed lettering on front cover and spine. Minor wear at bottom corners and bottom of spine, otherwise like-new copy of book by a West Virginia author.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAtkeson, Thomas Clark. Semi-Centennial History of the Patrons of Husbandry. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1915. Chocolate brown cloth, with gilt embossed lettering on front cover and spine. Stained all around edges of front cover and entire spine, book by a West Virginia author.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nBailey, L. H. The Horticulturist's Rule Book: A Compendium of Useful Information for Fruit-Growers, Truck-Gardeners, Florists and Others; Completed to the Beginning of the Year 1892. 2nd edition, revised. New York: Rural Publishing Company, 1892. Deep brown grain cloth cover, with embossed decoration at top and bottom of front cover. Gold stamped title, vine, watering can, hoe, and rake.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nBlackmore, R. D. Lorna Doone, A Novel. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, [date not stated, circa 1900]. White half-paper decorated in gilt-highlighted violets; white cloth spine elaborately decorated in gilt title, author, publisher, and floral designs; all three edges gilt; corners and fore-edge of paper cover chipped.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nBridgeman, Thomas. The American Gardener's Assistant, In Three Parts: Containing Complete Practical Directions for the Cultivation of Vegetables, Flowers, Fruit Trees, and Grape-Vines. New edition revised, enlarged, and illustrated by S. Edwards Todd. Philadelphia: Porter \u0026amp; Coates, 1866. Smooth-grained brown cloth. Black embossed borders with decorations on front cover, blind embossed on back cover. Gilt stamped wreath on front cover. Gold stamped agricultural tools and watering can, with black and gold decorations and gold lettering, on spine.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nBuck, Pearl S. Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul. New York: Triangle Books, 1939, reprinted April 1940. Hard cover, light blue faded by water spots, dust jacket in good condition. Owner's bookplate.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nBuck, Solon J. The Agrarian Crusade: A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920. Volume 45: The Chronicles of America Series. Extra-Illustrated edition. Smooth-grained maroon cloth cover. Borders, title, and author in gold on cover and spine. Highly ornate tablet in gold with white and black eagle and four open books on front cover. Gold decoration with open book on spine.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nButler, Frederick. The farmer's manual : being a plain practical treatise on the art of husbandry, designed to promote an acquaintance with the modern improvements in agriculture, together with remarks on gardening, and a treatise on the management of bees. Weathersfield [Conn.]: Published by the author, 1821. Lacks covers. Title page partially missing and stained. Extremely fragile.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nCachia, Anthony J. Libya under the Second Ottoman Occupation (1835-1911). Tripoli: Government Press, 1945. Signed by author and by Howard J. Forbes, previous owner.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nCobb, Irvin S. Roughing It De Luxe. Illustrated by John T. McCutcheon. New York: George H. Doran, 1914. Violet brown cloth. Title and author in gilt on front cover and spine. Black and white label at top of front cover picturing Santa Fe railway train with man perched atop the steam locomotive.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nCobleigh, Rolfe. Handy farm Devices and How to Make Them. (Farm Life Series) New York: Orange Judd Company, 1910. Olive green cloth cover, with black title, author, series, borders, and wheat designs stamped.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nConnor, Ralph. The Major. New York: George H. Doran, 1917. Bright and clean blue cloth cover, with embossed raised figure of a soldier and raised gilt title.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nConnor, Ralph. The Man From Glengarry: A Tale of the Ottawa. Special edition limited to 50,000 copies. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1901. Rust brown cloth cover. Title and author in black on front cover and spine. Tan outline of man standing on logs in a tree-lined river, with tan and black sky in background.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nConnor, Ralph. The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land. New York: George H. Doran, 1919. Dark blue cloth. Four blind-embossed soldiers and leafless tree on front cover, with title, author, and flames in orange.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nConnor, Ralph. The Sky Pilot: A Tale of the Foothills. Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, 1901. Dark tan cloth. Title and author in red on cover and spine. Standing man with sombrero and ammunition belt in navy blue on cover.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nde Valette, Marc. La Methode Directe pour L'Enseignement des Langues Vivantes a l'aide des Tableaux Auxiliaires. Deuxieme livre. Deuxieme edition. Edinburgh: Printed at the Ballantyne Press, [1910?]. Dark green cloth, gilt stamped title on cover and spine, gilt stamped decorative design of a sower in front of rising sun, fleur de lis embossed rows at top and bottom of front cover.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nDecorum: A Practical Treatise on Etiquette \u0026amp; Dress of the Best American Society, 1879. With illustrations and captions from Hill's Manual of Business and Social Forms. Westvaco Corporation, 1979. Clean and bright red-orange cloth covers, in decorative slip case.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nDickens, Charles. Bleak House. New York: Mershon Company, [1890s-1900s?] Maroon cloth. Blind stamped with designs of three elaborate hinges on front and back covers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nEllsworth, Henry W. The American Swine Breeder: A Practical Treatise on the Selection, Rearing and Fattening of Swine. Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Company; Philadelphia: Hogan and Thompson, 1840. Brown cloth grain cover, with embossed design and gilt stamped spine.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nFarjeon, Eleanor, and Herbert Farjeon. Kings and Queens. Illustrated by Rosalind Thornycroft. New York: E.P. Dutton, [no date]. Clean and bright paper cover with colored illustration of a king and a queen surrounded by red draperies, same design in same colors on dust jacket.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nFarm Conveniences: A Practical Hand-Book for the Farm. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1884. Profusely illustrated. Olive green cloth with title and sickle stamped in gold on front cover and title and farming tools in gold on spine. Black lined tools and wheat on front cover. Bookplate of the Library of the West Virginia Experiment Station inside front cover. Decorative end papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nFarm Implement News Buyer's Guide: Where to Purchase Farm Implements, Machines and Vehicles. Vol. III. Chicago: Farm Implement News Company, 1891. Numerous illustrations of farm machinery throughout, and advertising on endpapers. Olive green cloth cover, with title, publisher, and advertising stamped in black.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nFox, John, Jr. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1906. Bright and clean burgundy cloth cover, with embossed white title.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nFullerton, Edith Loring. How to Make a Vegetable Garden: A Practical and Suggestive Manual for the Home Garden. Illustrated by H. B. Fullerton. New York: Doubleday, Page \u0026amp; Co., 1905. Light green cloth, with title and borders in black. Front cover with photograph label of woman tilling a garden.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nHale, Philip H. The Book of Live Stock Champions, Being an Artistic Souvenir Supplement of the Monthly National Farmer and Stock Grower. St. Louis: Philip Henry Hale, 1912. Bright blue cloth cover, gilt border and lettering on front. Like new condition.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nHalevy, Ludovic. The Abbe Constantin. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, [date not stated, circa 1900]. Cloth covers with pink background, silver title, floral design with silver stems and green leaves, formed into wreath on front cover, soiled, worn at spine top and bottom; decorative half title and title pages.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nHarris, Joseph. Talks on Manures: A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks. New and Enlarged edition. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1902. Chocolate brown cloth cover, embossed with designs. Gilt stamped shovel and pitchfork on front cover.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nHarvey, William Hope. The Remedy. Chicago: Mundus Publishing Co., 1915. Marron cloth. Like new condition of a rarely seen book written by a West Virginia author, inscribed by author.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nHello Bill! A Book of After Dinner Stories. New York: H. M. Caldwell, 1911. Bright and clean purple cloth cover, with white title, clock, and antlered deer.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nHenderson, Peter. Gardening for Profit: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of the Market and Family Garden. New and enlarged edition. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1884. Green cloth, embossed with designs, bright gilt cabbage on front cover, gilt stamped title and publisher on spine. Clean with minimal wear and several small spots on cover.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nHenderson, Peter. Gardening for Profit: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of the Market and Family Garden. New and enlarged edition. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1874. Green cloth, embossed with designs, gilt cabbage on front cover, gilt stamped title and publisher on spine. Worn, soiled and stained, but sound.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nHenderson, Peter. Practical Floriculture: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of Florist's Plants, for the Amateur and Professional Florist. New and enlarged edition. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1897. Green cloth. Embossed design and gilt stamped title on front cover. Gilt stamped title, author, and publisher names on spine. Floral end papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nHough, Emerson. Fifty-four Forty or Fight. With illustrations by Arthur I. Keller. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1909. Bright and clean dark olive green cloth cover, with embossed geometrical designs and yellow title background.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nKelley, O. H. Origin and Progress of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry in the United States; A History from 1863 to 1873. Philadelphia: J. A. Wagenseller, 1875. Title, author, and sickle gold stamped on spine.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nLongfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, [date not stated, circa 1900]. Gray-brown cloth, orange \"L\" within wreath, acorn and orange oak leaf design on spine and five on front cover, black embossed title and author. Soiled and foxed.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nLucas, Daniel B., and J. Fairfax McLaughlin. Fisher Ames-Henry Clay, etc. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1891. West Virginia author, sound text, and clean black cloth cover.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nMartin, Edward Winslow. History of the Grange Movement; or, The Farmer's War Against Monopolies: being... a History of the Rise and Progress of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry... Philadelphia: National Publishing Co., 1873. Leather cover, embossed borders, black and gold title label on spine, marbled end papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nMichel, Louise. La Commune. Bibliotheque Sociologique. 8th edition. Paris: Librarie P. V. Stock, 1921. Paper wrappers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nMontgomery, E. G. Productive Farm Crops. (Lippincott's Farm Manuals) Philadelphia: J.B Lippincott Company, 1918. Dark tan cloth, decorated in green lettering and vegetable vignettes, with orange background. Lightly marbled edges. Condition very fine, but interior foxed.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nMorrell, L. A. The American Shepherd: Being a History of the Sheep, with their Breeds, Management, and Diseases. ... New York: Harper \u0026amp; Brothers, 1845. Brown cloth cover, embossed with a pattern and a blind-embossed design of a circle with arrows protruding from top and bottom.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nNolan, Aretas W. One Hundred lessons in Elementary Agriculture. Morgantown, WV: Acme Publishing Co., 1908. Dark brown cloth. Like new condition of a rarely seen book published in Morgantown.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOrr, James L. The National Grange Choir, Published by the Executive Committee of the National Grange, for use in the Granges of the United States. Philadelphia: Printed by J. A. Wagenseller, 1883. Oblong shaped book, music scores and lyrics.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOur Homes: How to Beautify Them. New York: O. Judd Co., 1887. Blue green cloth, with embossed border design. Gilt stamped spine with title, publisher, peacock feathers, flowers, and leaves.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nPackard, S. S., and H. B. Bryant. The New Bryant and Stratton Common School Book-Keeping: Embracing Single and Double Entry. ... New York: American Book Company, 1878. Grey-taupe cloth cover, deeply embossed with elaborate designs, black stamped on front cover and blind on back. Includes publisher's symbol black embossed in center of front cover. Condition very fine.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nRandall, Henry S. The Practical Shepherd: A Complete Treatise on the Breeding, Management and Diseases of Sheep. Nineteenth edition. Rochester, NY: D.D.T. Moore, 1864. Deep green cloth, blind embossed designs, embossed gilt stamped sheep on front cover, blind embossed sheep on back cover, gilt lettering and sheep on spine.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nRandall, Henry S. The Practical Shepherd: A Complete Treatise on the Breeding, Management and Diseases of Sheep. Thirty-first edition. New York: The American News Company, 1863. Brown-orange cloth, embossed designs in black, bright gilt stamped sheep on cover, and black and gilt lettering on spine. Bumped corners, soiled spine, otherwise very nice condition.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nRead, John E. Farming for Profit: A Hand-Book for the American Farmer. Philadelphia: P. W. Ziegler, 1882, c1880. Elaborately illustrated front cover, black embossed images of tools, crops, livestock, poultry, horse drawn carriage, basket, and gilt stamped title, plow, and basket. Same image on back but lacking gold. Spine similarly illustrated with cow's head and farming machinery.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nRevell, Nellie. The Funny Side Out: After, Before and During Dinner Stories with Apologies to Whoever First Told Them. New York: George H. Doran, 1925. Red cloth with black lettering and design. Multiple figures, men and women, each occupying a diamond in a latticework design. Cover signed IRB (?).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nRiley, James Whitcomb. Riley Farm-Rhymes. With country pictures by Will Vawter. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1905. Pink-orange cloth. Title and author on cover brown outlined in black. Spine includes ear of corn, with kernels in brown. Worm holes aligned with hinge between front cover and spine.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nRobinson, Rowland E. Uncle Lisha's Shop and a Danvis Pioneer. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1933. Elaborate stamped turtle shell pattern on deep green cloth. Also gilt stamped pine branch and author's name on front cover. Gilt stamped lettering on spine. Very fine condition.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nRoot, A. I., and E. R. Root. The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture.: A Cyclopedia of Everything Pertaining to the Care of the Honey-bee ... Medina, Ohio: The A. I. Root Company, 1910. Black cloth cover, blind embossed with title on front and back, and gold stamped 2.5 inch bee on front cover. Floral endpapers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nRowlands, Walter. Among the Great Masters of Painting: Scenes in the Lives of Famous Painters. Boston: Dana Estes, 1901. Clean and bright white cloth cover, with embossed gilt title, columns, and artist's palette.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nRUS : A Biographical Register of Rural Leadership in the United States and Canada. Compiled by L.H. Bailey and Ethel Zoe Bailey. \"Fourth issue.\" Ithaca, NY, 1930. Tan cloth with black title, date, four stars, and design of scythes and sickles.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nRus: A Biographical Register of Rural Leadership in the United States and Canada. Compiled by L. H. Bailey and Ethel Zoe Bailey. Ithaca, N.Y., 1925. \"Rus\" is Latin for \"the country.\" Decorative cloth cover.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nScott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe, A Romance. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, [date not stated, circa 1900]. Light green cloth, clean, with multi-colored depiction of jousting knights with castle and trees in background. Author's name in black, and title in yellow-orange, outlined in black. Sword and crossed lances on spine.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nSheppard, Muriel Earley. Cloud by Day: A Story of Coal and Coke and People. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1947. Bright and clean black cloth cover, with pictorial dust jacket.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nStephens, C. A. Haps and Mishaps at the Old Farm. Norway, Maine: The Old Squire's Bookstore, 1925. Deep brown cloth with red lettering and maroon lines. With illustrated end papers and frontispiece.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nStephens, C. A. My Folks in Maine. Norway, Maine: The Old Squire's Bookstore, 1934. Tan cloth with light tan lettering and lines. With illustrated end papers and frontispiece.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nStephens, C. A. Katahdin Camps. Norway, Maine: The Old Squire's Bookstore, 1928. With illustrations by Jacob Bates Abbott. Mossy green cloth with dark green lettering and lines. Illustrated end papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nStiles, Kent B. Stamps: An Outline of Philately. Illustrated by numerous photographs. New York: Harper \u0026amp; Brothers, 1929. Third printing. Bright orange cloth, with black lettering, very modest wear and soil.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nStuart, Jesse. The Thread that Runs so True. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. Rust brown cloth in very fine condition. Signed by author. Dust jacket with title: The Thread That Runs so True: A Mountain School-teacher Tells His Story.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nTarkington, Booth. Beasley's Christmas Party. Illustrated by Ruth Sypherd Clements. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1909. Title page and numerous illustrations in color. Deep red cloth. Blind embossed design of holly leaves and berries on front cover. Title and author lettering gilt stamped on front cover and spine.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nTarkington, Booth. The Conquest of Canaan: A Novel. Illustrations by Lucius W. Hitchcock. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1905. Red-orange cloth. Gold stamped title and spine with decorative frame incorporating leaves and flowers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nTarkington, Booth. The Midlander. Garden City: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1924. Olive green cloth, with author, title, and frame stamped in gold. Dust jacket includes artist's cityscape on front, photo portrait of Tarkington on back, and list on the inside of publisher's other fiction books.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nTerry, T. B. Our Farming; or, How We have Made a Run-down Farm Bring Both Profit and Pleasure; Potato, Wheat, and Clover Culture, Tillage, Tile Drainage, Manure Saving, etc., etc.; Treated Independently from A to Z. Philadelphia: The Farmer Company, 1893. Maroon cloth. Title stamped in gold on cover and spine. Some internal foxing.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe Arabian Nights. Orton Lowe, editor. Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 1924. Red cloth cover, with full size paper label on front cover bearing title and colored illustration of scene from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Illustrated end papers. Sixty illustrations. With colored plates by Adelaide H. Bolton.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe Baptist Hymnal (Abridged) for Use in the Church and Home. W. Howard Doane, musical editor. E.H. Johnson, associate editor. Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1883. Stamped on front and back paste-down end papers: Property of Beth-Eden Baptist Church, Allegheny, Pa. Hard cover.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe Chautauqua Collection (Choruses and Part-Songs). Compiled by Arthur Hallam. Cincinnati: The John Church Company, 1915. Deep green cloth with black stamped title.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThomas, John J. The American Fruit Culturist: Containing Practical Directions for the Propagation and Culture of all Fruits Adapted to the United States. 21st edition, revised and enlarged by William H. S. Wood. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1920. Green cloth cover, with gold stamped raspberries on front.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nVan Dyke, Henry. The Blue Flower. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1902. Multi-color cover design, signed within design by Margaret Armstrong.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nVerne, Jules. The Lighthouse at the End of the World. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1924. Tan cloth with embossed green title, author, and full-rigged ship within frame, in very fine condtion. Dust jacket with colored illustration of ship and lighthouse.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nWhite, William Allen. A Certain Rich Man. New York: Macmillan, 1909. Green cloth. Title set in gold framed rectangle, sheaves of wheat in gold on cover and spine, author's name in gold.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nWillson, Marcius. Outlines of History: Illustrated by numerous [G]eographical and Historical Notes and Maps embracing Part I. Ancient History Part II. Modern History. School edition. New York: Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman \u0026amp; Co., 1868. Dark brown cloth blind embossed with border design and logo of publisher. Black leather spine with gilt stamped title.\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Fifteen copies of the Monticola, West Virginia University yearbook, separated to A\u0026M 5025 (1971-1984, 1986, 1992 (in boxes 40-41).","\n--","\nWilliam D. Barns Collection books designated for Rare Book Room:","\nAllen, Lewis F. American Cattle: Their History, Breeding and Management. Revised. New York: O. Judd Co., 1887. Bluish green cloth, gilt stamped cow on front cover and decorative title and author in gilt on spine. Bookplate removed.","\nAmerican Wit and Humor. Vol. 1. Philadelphia: Georg W. Jacobs, 1900. Bright and clean navy blue cloth cover, with gilt embossed title and boxed design of six ears of corn on cornstalks.","\nAshby, N. B. The Riddle of the Sphinx: A Discussion of the Economic Questions Relating to Agriculture, land, Transportation, Money, Taxation, and Cost of Interchange. Des Moines, Iowa: Industrial Publishing Co., 1890. Rough-grained maroon cloth. Black embossed borders and corner decorations on front. Gilt stamped sphinx and pyramid on front cover. Gilt lettering and black design on spine. Floral endpapers.","\nAtherton, Gertrude. California: An Intimate History. New York: Harper, 1914. First edition with K-O on copyright page. Decorative cover, no dust jacket.","\nAtkeson, Thomas Clark. A Catechism of Agriculture: Illustrated. New York: Orange Judd, 1913. Chocolate brown grain cloth. Embossed design at top and bottom of covers. Title and author stamped in white in box on front cover and on spine. Very, very fine condition.","\nAtkeson, Thomas Clark. Semi-Centennial History of the Patrons of Husbandry. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1915. Chocolate brown cloth, with gilt embossed lettering on front cover and spine. Minor wear at bottom corners and bottom of spine, otherwise like-new copy of book by a West Virginia author.","\nAtkeson, Thomas Clark. Semi-Centennial History of the Patrons of Husbandry. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1915. Chocolate brown cloth, with gilt embossed lettering on front cover and spine. Stained all around edges of front cover and entire spine, book by a West Virginia author.","\nBailey, L. H. The Horticulturist's Rule Book: A Compendium of Useful Information for Fruit-Growers, Truck-Gardeners, Florists and Others; Completed to the Beginning of the Year 1892. 2nd edition, revised. New York: Rural Publishing Company, 1892. Deep brown grain cloth cover, with embossed decoration at top and bottom of front cover. Gold stamped title, vine, watering can, hoe, and rake.","\nBlackmore, R. D. Lorna Doone, A Novel. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, [date not stated, circa 1900]. White half-paper decorated in gilt-highlighted violets; white cloth spine elaborately decorated in gilt title, author, publisher, and floral designs; all three edges gilt; corners and fore-edge of paper cover chipped.","\nBridgeman, Thomas. The American Gardener's Assistant, In Three Parts: Containing Complete Practical Directions for the Cultivation of Vegetables, Flowers, Fruit Trees, and Grape-Vines. New edition revised, enlarged, and illustrated by S. Edwards Todd. Philadelphia: Porter \u0026 Coates, 1866. Smooth-grained brown cloth. Black embossed borders with decorations on front cover, blind embossed on back cover. Gilt stamped wreath on front cover. Gold stamped agricultural tools and watering can, with black and gold decorations and gold lettering, on spine.","\nBuck, Pearl S. Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul. New York: Triangle Books, 1939, reprinted April 1940. Hard cover, light blue faded by water spots, dust jacket in good condition. Owner's bookplate.","\nBuck, Solon J. The Agrarian Crusade: A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920. Volume 45: The Chronicles of America Series. Extra-Illustrated edition. Smooth-grained maroon cloth cover. Borders, title, and author in gold on cover and spine. Highly ornate tablet in gold with white and black eagle and four open books on front cover. Gold decoration with open book on spine.","\nButler, Frederick. The farmer's manual : being a plain practical treatise on the art of husbandry, designed to promote an acquaintance with the modern improvements in agriculture, together with remarks on gardening, and a treatise on the management of bees. Weathersfield [Conn.]: Published by the author, 1821. Lacks covers. Title page partially missing and stained. Extremely fragile.","\nCachia, Anthony J. Libya under the Second Ottoman Occupation (1835-1911). Tripoli: Government Press, 1945. Signed by author and by Howard J. Forbes, previous owner.","\nCobb, Irvin S. Roughing It De Luxe. Illustrated by John T. McCutcheon. New York: George H. Doran, 1914. Violet brown cloth. Title and author in gilt on front cover and spine. Black and white label at top of front cover picturing Santa Fe railway train with man perched atop the steam locomotive.","\nCobleigh, Rolfe. Handy farm Devices and How to Make Them. (Farm Life Series) New York: Orange Judd Company, 1910. Olive green cloth cover, with black title, author, series, borders, and wheat designs stamped.","\nConnor, Ralph. The Major. New York: George H. Doran, 1917. Bright and clean blue cloth cover, with embossed raised figure of a soldier and raised gilt title.","\nConnor, Ralph. The Man From Glengarry: A Tale of the Ottawa. Special edition limited to 50,000 copies. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1901. Rust brown cloth cover. Title and author in black on front cover and spine. Tan outline of man standing on logs in a tree-lined river, with tan and black sky in background.","\nConnor, Ralph. The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land. New York: George H. Doran, 1919. Dark blue cloth. Four blind-embossed soldiers and leafless tree on front cover, with title, author, and flames in orange.","\nConnor, Ralph. The Sky Pilot: A Tale of the Foothills. Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, 1901. Dark tan cloth. Title and author in red on cover and spine. Standing man with sombrero and ammunition belt in navy blue on cover.","\nde Valette, Marc. La Methode Directe pour L'Enseignement des Langues Vivantes a l'aide des Tableaux Auxiliaires. Deuxieme livre. Deuxieme edition. Edinburgh: Printed at the Ballantyne Press, [1910?]. Dark green cloth, gilt stamped title on cover and spine, gilt stamped decorative design of a sower in front of rising sun, fleur de lis embossed rows at top and bottom of front cover.","\nDecorum: A Practical Treatise on Etiquette \u0026 Dress of the Best American Society, 1879. With illustrations and captions from Hill's Manual of Business and Social Forms. Westvaco Corporation, 1979. Clean and bright red-orange cloth covers, in decorative slip case.","\nDickens, Charles. Bleak House. New York: Mershon Company, [1890s-1900s?] Maroon cloth. Blind stamped with designs of three elaborate hinges on front and back covers.","\nEllsworth, Henry W. The American Swine Breeder: A Practical Treatise on the Selection, Rearing and Fattening of Swine. Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Company; Philadelphia: Hogan and Thompson, 1840. Brown cloth grain cover, with embossed design and gilt stamped spine.","\nFarjeon, Eleanor, and Herbert Farjeon. Kings and Queens. Illustrated by Rosalind Thornycroft. New York: E.P. Dutton, [no date]. Clean and bright paper cover with colored illustration of a king and a queen surrounded by red draperies, same design in same colors on dust jacket.","\nFarm Conveniences: A Practical Hand-Book for the Farm. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1884. Profusely illustrated. Olive green cloth with title and sickle stamped in gold on front cover and title and farming tools in gold on spine. Black lined tools and wheat on front cover. Bookplate of the Library of the West Virginia Experiment Station inside front cover. Decorative end papers.","\nFarm Implement News Buyer's Guide: Where to Purchase Farm Implements, Machines and Vehicles. Vol. III. Chicago: Farm Implement News Company, 1891. Numerous illustrations of farm machinery throughout, and advertising on endpapers. Olive green cloth cover, with title, publisher, and advertising stamped in black.","\nFox, John, Jr. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1906. Bright and clean burgundy cloth cover, with embossed white title.","\nFullerton, Edith Loring. How to Make a Vegetable Garden: A Practical and Suggestive Manual for the Home Garden. Illustrated by H. B. Fullerton. New York: Doubleday, Page \u0026 Co., 1905. Light green cloth, with title and borders in black. Front cover with photograph label of woman tilling a garden.","\nHale, Philip H. The Book of Live Stock Champions, Being an Artistic Souvenir Supplement of the Monthly National Farmer and Stock Grower. St. Louis: Philip Henry Hale, 1912. Bright blue cloth cover, gilt border and lettering on front. Like new condition.","\nHalevy, Ludovic. The Abbe Constantin. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, [date not stated, circa 1900]. Cloth covers with pink background, silver title, floral design with silver stems and green leaves, formed into wreath on front cover, soiled, worn at spine top and bottom; decorative half title and title pages.","\nHarris, Joseph. Talks on Manures: A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks. New and Enlarged edition. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1902. Chocolate brown cloth cover, embossed with designs. Gilt stamped shovel and pitchfork on front cover.","\nHarvey, William Hope. The Remedy. Chicago: Mundus Publishing Co., 1915. Marron cloth. Like new condition of a rarely seen book written by a West Virginia author, inscribed by author.","\nHello Bill! A Book of After Dinner Stories. New York: H. M. Caldwell, 1911. Bright and clean purple cloth cover, with white title, clock, and antlered deer.","\nHenderson, Peter. Gardening for Profit: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of the Market and Family Garden. New and enlarged edition. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1884. Green cloth, embossed with designs, bright gilt cabbage on front cover, gilt stamped title and publisher on spine. Clean with minimal wear and several small spots on cover.","\nHenderson, Peter. Gardening for Profit: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of the Market and Family Garden. New and enlarged edition. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1874. Green cloth, embossed with designs, gilt cabbage on front cover, gilt stamped title and publisher on spine. Worn, soiled and stained, but sound.","\nHenderson, Peter. Practical Floriculture: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of Florist's Plants, for the Amateur and Professional Florist. New and enlarged edition. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1897. Green cloth. Embossed design and gilt stamped title on front cover. Gilt stamped title, author, and publisher names on spine. Floral end papers.","\nHough, Emerson. Fifty-four Forty or Fight. With illustrations by Arthur I. Keller. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1909. Bright and clean dark olive green cloth cover, with embossed geometrical designs and yellow title background.","\nKelley, O. H. Origin and Progress of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry in the United States; A History from 1863 to 1873. Philadelphia: J. A. Wagenseller, 1875. Title, author, and sickle gold stamped on spine.","\nLongfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, [date not stated, circa 1900]. Gray-brown cloth, orange \"L\" within wreath, acorn and orange oak leaf design on spine and five on front cover, black embossed title and author. Soiled and foxed.","\nLucas, Daniel B., and J. Fairfax McLaughlin. Fisher Ames-Henry Clay, etc. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1891. West Virginia author, sound text, and clean black cloth cover.","\nMartin, Edward Winslow. History of the Grange Movement; or, The Farmer's War Against Monopolies: being... a History of the Rise and Progress of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry... Philadelphia: National Publishing Co., 1873. Leather cover, embossed borders, black and gold title label on spine, marbled end papers.","\nMichel, Louise. La Commune. Bibliotheque Sociologique. 8th edition. Paris: Librarie P. V. Stock, 1921. Paper wrappers.","\nMontgomery, E. G. Productive Farm Crops. (Lippincott's Farm Manuals) Philadelphia: J.B Lippincott Company, 1918. Dark tan cloth, decorated in green lettering and vegetable vignettes, with orange background. Lightly marbled edges. Condition very fine, but interior foxed.","\nMorrell, L. A. The American Shepherd: Being a History of the Sheep, with their Breeds, Management, and Diseases. ... New York: Harper \u0026 Brothers, 1845. Brown cloth cover, embossed with a pattern and a blind-embossed design of a circle with arrows protruding from top and bottom.","\nNolan, Aretas W. One Hundred lessons in Elementary Agriculture. Morgantown, WV: Acme Publishing Co., 1908. Dark brown cloth. Like new condition of a rarely seen book published in Morgantown.","\nOrr, James L. The National Grange Choir, Published by the Executive Committee of the National Grange, for use in the Granges of the United States. Philadelphia: Printed by J. A. Wagenseller, 1883. Oblong shaped book, music scores and lyrics.","\nOur Homes: How to Beautify Them. New York: O. Judd Co., 1887. Blue green cloth, with embossed border design. Gilt stamped spine with title, publisher, peacock feathers, flowers, and leaves.","\nPackard, S. S., and H. B. Bryant. The New Bryant and Stratton Common School Book-Keeping: Embracing Single and Double Entry. ... New York: American Book Company, 1878. Grey-taupe cloth cover, deeply embossed with elaborate designs, black stamped on front cover and blind on back. Includes publisher's symbol black embossed in center of front cover. Condition very fine.","\nRandall, Henry S. The Practical Shepherd: A Complete Treatise on the Breeding, Management and Diseases of Sheep. Nineteenth edition. Rochester, NY: D.D.T. Moore, 1864. Deep green cloth, blind embossed designs, embossed gilt stamped sheep on front cover, blind embossed sheep on back cover, gilt lettering and sheep on spine.","\nRandall, Henry S. The Practical Shepherd: A Complete Treatise on the Breeding, Management and Diseases of Sheep. Thirty-first edition. New York: The American News Company, 1863. Brown-orange cloth, embossed designs in black, bright gilt stamped sheep on cover, and black and gilt lettering on spine. Bumped corners, soiled spine, otherwise very nice condition.","\nRead, John E. Farming for Profit: A Hand-Book for the American Farmer. Philadelphia: P. W. Ziegler, 1882, c1880. Elaborately illustrated front cover, black embossed images of tools, crops, livestock, poultry, horse drawn carriage, basket, and gilt stamped title, plow, and basket. Same image on back but lacking gold. Spine similarly illustrated with cow's head and farming machinery.","\nRevell, Nellie. The Funny Side Out: After, Before and During Dinner Stories with Apologies to Whoever First Told Them. New York: George H. Doran, 1925. Red cloth with black lettering and design. Multiple figures, men and women, each occupying a diamond in a latticework design. Cover signed IRB (?).","\nRiley, James Whitcomb. Riley Farm-Rhymes. With country pictures by Will Vawter. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1905. Pink-orange cloth. Title and author on cover brown outlined in black. Spine includes ear of corn, with kernels in brown. Worm holes aligned with hinge between front cover and spine.","\nRobinson, Rowland E. Uncle Lisha's Shop and a Danvis Pioneer. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1933. Elaborate stamped turtle shell pattern on deep green cloth. Also gilt stamped pine branch and author's name on front cover. Gilt stamped lettering on spine. Very fine condition.","\nRoot, A. I., and E. R. Root. The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture.: A Cyclopedia of Everything Pertaining to the Care of the Honey-bee ... Medina, Ohio: The A. I. Root Company, 1910. Black cloth cover, blind embossed with title on front and back, and gold stamped 2.5 inch bee on front cover. Floral endpapers.","\nRowlands, Walter. Among the Great Masters of Painting: Scenes in the Lives of Famous Painters. Boston: Dana Estes, 1901. Clean and bright white cloth cover, with embossed gilt title, columns, and artist's palette.","\nRUS : A Biographical Register of Rural Leadership in the United States and Canada. Compiled by L.H. Bailey and Ethel Zoe Bailey. \"Fourth issue.\" Ithaca, NY, 1930. Tan cloth with black title, date, four stars, and design of scythes and sickles.","\nRus: A Biographical Register of Rural Leadership in the United States and Canada. Compiled by L. H. Bailey and Ethel Zoe Bailey. Ithaca, N.Y., 1925. \"Rus\" is Latin for \"the country.\" Decorative cloth cover.","\nScott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe, A Romance. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, [date not stated, circa 1900]. Light green cloth, clean, with multi-colored depiction of jousting knights with castle and trees in background. Author's name in black, and title in yellow-orange, outlined in black. Sword and crossed lances on spine.","\nSheppard, Muriel Earley. Cloud by Day: A Story of Coal and Coke and People. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1947. Bright and clean black cloth cover, with pictorial dust jacket.","\nStephens, C. A. Haps and Mishaps at the Old Farm. Norway, Maine: The Old Squire's Bookstore, 1925. Deep brown cloth with red lettering and maroon lines. With illustrated end papers and frontispiece.","\nStephens, C. A. My Folks in Maine. Norway, Maine: The Old Squire's Bookstore, 1934. Tan cloth with light tan lettering and lines. With illustrated end papers and frontispiece.","\nStephens, C. A. Katahdin Camps. Norway, Maine: The Old Squire's Bookstore, 1928. With illustrations by Jacob Bates Abbott. Mossy green cloth with dark green lettering and lines. Illustrated end papers.","\nStiles, Kent B. Stamps: An Outline of Philately. Illustrated by numerous photographs. New York: Harper \u0026 Brothers, 1929. Third printing. Bright orange cloth, with black lettering, very modest wear and soil.","\nStuart, Jesse. The Thread that Runs so True. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. Rust brown cloth in very fine condition. Signed by author. Dust jacket with title: The Thread That Runs so True: A Mountain School-teacher Tells His Story.","\nTarkington, Booth. Beasley's Christmas Party. Illustrated by Ruth Sypherd Clements. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1909. Title page and numerous illustrations in color. Deep red cloth. Blind embossed design of holly leaves and berries on front cover. Title and author lettering gilt stamped on front cover and spine.","\nTarkington, Booth. The Conquest of Canaan: A Novel. Illustrations by Lucius W. Hitchcock. 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Red cloth cover, with full size paper label on front cover bearing title and colored illustration of scene from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Illustrated end papers. Sixty illustrations. With colored plates by Adelaide H. Bolton.","\nThe Baptist Hymnal (Abridged) for Use in the Church and Home. W. Howard Doane, musical editor. E.H. Johnson, associate editor. Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1883. Stamped on front and back paste-down end papers: Property of Beth-Eden Baptist Church, Allegheny, Pa. Hard cover.","\nThe Chautauqua Collection (Choruses and Part-Songs). Compiled by Arthur Hallam. Cincinnati: The John Church Company, 1915. Deep green cloth with black stamped title.","\nThomas, John J. The American Fruit Culturist: Containing Practical Directions for the Propagation and Culture of all Fruits Adapted to the United States. 21st edition, revised and enlarged by William H. S. Wood. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1920. 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He married Frances Harris of Loudon County, Virginia and the couple had three children: Martha, Mary Bell, and William.","During the Civil War, Stuart briefly commanded the 15th Virginia Infantry Regiment, and was then appointed Colonel with the 56th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Confederate States Army. He was mortally wounded at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania during Pickett's Charge, and died in a hospital in Staunton on July 29, 1863.","The William D. Stuart papers were originally in the possession of Stuart's widow and were passed down through the family before being donated to VMI.","Virginia Military Institute \nDecember 3 1850","My dear sir \nHaving understood that Mr. W. D. Stuart is an applicant for a commission in the U.S. Army I take the liberty of addressing you a private note on his behalf. I do this in preference to the formal course of a recommendation, because you will be better able to appreciate what I may\nsay in the unreserved mode in which I write.","You are aware that Mr. S. entered this Institution as a cadet in July 1847. After completing the whole course of studies, he was graduated in July last with great credit. You will see by the accompanying merit roll that in all his classes he maintained a most respectable standing, while in Geology, Artillery, and Infantry Tactics, he was No. 1. And in Military Engineering 3rd.","In addition to these facts, he was a commissioned officer of the Corps of Cadets and gave great satisfaction to us in the manner in which he discharged his duties.","So high was our estimate of his talents as a scholar and qualifications as an officer, that on a vacancy in our Corps of Instructors occurring in July, he was selected as an assistant Professor of Math. And assistant Instructor of Tactics and has been discharging these duties with great credit up to the present time.","From my personal knowledge of the qualifications of an officer of the Army, I know that there are few young men who enter the Service from West Point who are better qualified than Stuart and I have no doubt he will make as fine an officer as can be selected for the Infantry arm of\nthe Service.","You know his moral qualifications as well as I do. If any doubt had existed on this point, he would never have been appointed an officer in this Institution.","hope it will be the pleasure of the President to confer an appointment upon Mr. Stuart.","This Institution has been laboring now for 11 years in building up its Military reputation and we should like to have an opportunity of comparing our graduates with those from West Point.","With cordial regards to Mrs. S. \nI am very truly your friend \nFrancis H. Smith","Hon. A. H. H. Stuart\nWashington City","Va. Military Institute \nDec 10th 1850","Mr. W.D. Stuart desires to obtain a commision in the U.S. Army. His present post, that of Asst. Instructor of Tactics in the Va. Military Institute is evidence of his peculiar fitness for command. His acquirements at the Insititute of which he is a graduate, embracing Engineering, Artillery, and Infantry Tactics, with Mathematics and the Natural Sciences were such as to induce the authorities of the Institute to select him from her many graduates for the very responsible situation he now holds, a situation which requires judgement, firmness and decision of Character- all of which Mr. Stuart possesses in a high degree. His uniformily gentlemanly\ndeportment has endeared him to his fellow officers and will make him grace the position he seeks. \nThomas. H. Williamson \nProf. Engr. \u0026 Arch.","VMI \nDecember 10, 1850","W. Stuart was appointed immediately after his graduation Assistant Instructor of Tactics in the Virginia Military Institute. This is the highest and most indubitable testimony of the estimate of his military qualifications, by those who know him best. The course of military instruction and discipline at the Institute conforms strictly to that of the U.S.A. at West Point and is conducted by graduates of the latter Institution. If from a jealous regard to the character of the Army, the\nGovernment ordinarily restricts its commissions to the graduates of West Point, the same principle might well incline it, in its exceptional appointment of citizens, to feel a preference for those, who like Mr. Stuart, have at a State Institution, thoroughly prepared themselves for the Military Profession. \nJohn T.L. Preston \nProf. V.M.I","Engineers Office \nMemphis and Charleston Railroad \nHuntsville \nNovember 22d 1854","My Dear Stuart, \nI have just stolen away from my wife and have run up to my office with the determination of writing you. I was not a little surprised to learn through your letter that you had written me. Your letter, which reached me about ten days ago was the only one I have received from you since your marriage. I wrote you at that particularly interesting time a note of congratulations, as well as a letter, just before your mariage, but have received no letter in return. Now my good fellow I have no doubt but what you think that you wrote me, but as for my part I am inclined to think that you did not. I am sure I should not think it strange if you had not for you are a newly married man, and as a matter of course can not afford to give your friends many thoughts, at least for a while.","It is really refreshing, my old friend to hear from you and especially to know that you are a married man and in the full enjoyment of the pleasures that attend married love. My wife returned from Virginia about the first of September with much improved health---and my boy is a most magnificent fellow. A look at him might be of some service to you. Don't blush my dear fellow I don't mean any thing.","Dabney, what under the sun has become of all of our class mates. You are living in the center of our great union and should be posted up on every thing. I never see the names of any of our class in the papers, nor do I ever correspond with any of them, hence I am utterly ignorant of their movements. I never any thing from Lexington since you left there. Have any of our old acquaintances married off since our days-.","Matters here are still wearing a pleasant and flattering aspect. Our road is moving on finely, and we trust ere many more months pass away, that we will have a large and important portion of our work finished. I wish that we had a good comfortable post to offer you here. We are finishing up so fast that we are reducing the Corps instead of increasing. Still, should you ever make up your mind to embark in the profession, we might look out for a post for you.","Your school I trust will for the present afford you a comfortable competency, and something besides. School teaching, like every thing else has its reverses, its calms and its storms. We can find no profession that is made up entirely of sunshine. We must expect the life of man to harmonize with nature, having its passing clouds and refreshing sunshine in equal turns. I with all my hopeful temperament, have had my moments of gloom and anxiety, but with a fond wife, no less hopeful than myself, to cheer me, I have faced all and am now full of bright anticipation. Nor does this come about from any fortune, or particular promises, but all from a conviction that there is room for everyone in this world and plenty for everyone to do, and that industry when ever it is found is in the course of time rewarded. This is an unusually difficult time with almost everyone. There seems to be a weariness in the money market in every quarter. Men experience great difficulty in meeting their general expenses. This state of affairs, I have no doubt has had its influence upon your school, and I feel assured that there will be an improvement after a little while. I hope my dear Stuart, that you will continue to keep me posted up in regard to your movements, for I may find a good offering out South that would please you, and if such should be the case, it would give me inexpressible pleasure to serve you. I will always be on the look out. A new country is better for a young man in any profession. The competition is not so great and pay better. Present me the kindest manner to your good wife and receive the renewed assurance of your old and sincere friend and classmate. \nGabe Jordan Jr.","Richmond, Va. \nApril 15th 1861","Gov. Letcher \nDear Sir, \nI enclose recommendations from the Authorities of the Va. Military Institute to the Secretary of War under Mr. Fillmore for an appointment in the U.S. Army at that time. I submit them to you in my own behalf for an appointment under the State of Va. in the event of her secession from\nthe present Federal Government. I desire an appointment to any position in which my services may be required the most valuable, either in the active duties of the field or otherwise. \nVery respectfully yours, \nWm. D. Stuart","Head Qrs Va Forces \nRichmond Va. May 20 1861 \nSpecial Orders \nNo 82","Col. T.P. August, Lt. Col. W.D. Stuart, and Major Thos. G. Peyton, Virginia Vols, are assigned to duty with the troops at the \"Camp of Instruction\" and will report without delay to Col. William Gilham commanding that post.","By order of Maj. Genl Lee \nR. Garnett \nAdjt Genl.","Richmond \nMay 21st 1861 \nCapt. W. D. Stuart","Dear Sir, \nAt a meeting of the Richmond City Guard held this evening, the undersigned were appointed a Committee to express to you the unfeigned regret of the Company on having read your resignation, and to tender you the sincere thanks of the Company for the faithfulness and efficiency with which you have discharged the duties of Commanding Officer.","While the Company deplores deeply the necessity which separates you from us, we rejoice to know that our Beloved State will have the benefit of your valuable services.","Permit us personally and on behalf of the Company to tender you our best wishes for your future happiness and prosperity.","Very truly your friends, \nDavis N. Walker \nSamuel M. Bailey \nJames E. Burress","Unofficial","Camp of Instruction \nMay 23rd","My dear Col. \nWhen three field officers were assigned to duty here, I was so green as to put each in command of a Regt., having no other officers who knew any thing about organizing a Regt. This arrangement does not seem to have suited Col. August, who has been complaining to the powers that be, and I have received an order directing me to assign them all to one Regt--that of Col. August of course. Col. Stuart is one of them, and is totally unprepared for the field; he will make application to Gen. Fauntleroy this evening for a few days, please see what you can do for him. Gen. F. though may not have him in his Divn, if so he will have to go to Col. Magruder of course.","Yours sincerely \nW. Gilham","Richmond \nJuly 5th 1861 \nLt. Col. Stewart [Stuart] \n3rd Regt. Va. Vols. \nYorktown","Dear Sir, \nSometime, about the latter part of May or the commencement of June your lady Mrs. Stewart in company with Mrs. Lucy Wharton called at my Office in order to procure material for the purpose of making you a tent as they were unable to get a tent allready made: and stated that you were without one. Under these circumstances, I furnished the necessary material with the consent of Col. Heth the then Q.M. General who instructed me to take your receipt for one tent. The receipt has been delayed from various causes, partly because I did not know the address of Mrs. Stewart or yourself. Should you receive this letter I would be much obliged that you sign and return me the enclosed receipt; by your prompt attention to wit you will much oblige.","Yours very respectfully, \nMaury Garland \nCapt. and Asst. Q. M.","Head Quarters Williamsburg \nJuly 25th 1861","Col., \nThe General having understood that Colonel August is unwell. He directs that you will urge with the greatest vigor the work on the Fortification at King's Mill. In order to do this you will have but one drill a day in the evening. The working hours will be from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. and from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. The guns to place in the various works are now on the way here and it is specially desired to have the works ready for them at the earliest moment.","I am sir very respectfully \nYour obedient servant \nG. B. Cosby \nMaj. and AAAG","Adjutant Inspr Genl's Office \nRichmond \nSept 17th 1861 \nExtract \nSpecial Orders \nNo. 280","XI. Lieut Colonel William D. Stuart Virginia Volunteers is promoted to be Colonel and assigned to the Command of the 56th Virginia Regiment just organized at Camp Lee, near this city, andwill report accordingly.","By order of the Secretary of War \n[Geo. Deas] \nA.A.G.","Camp Lee \nNov. 15th 1861 \nCol. George W. Munford","Sir \nI had the honor receive at the hands of Col. S. Bassett French the Flag of Va. intended for the Regiment I have the honor to command, also the accompanying letter of presentation from you.","As the commanding officer of the Regt. and its organ upon this occasion, I need not assure you that I received it with pride and satisfaction. Regarding it as the emblem of the honor and purity of our Mother State, hitherto unsullied in Council or War it shall be carefully guarded that it receive no detriment at the hands of the Regiment to which you have confided. I think I can with all safety assure you, and that the Sons of Va., voluntarily of the 56th Va. Regt. will ever be found at their post of duty and that they will never do discredit to the sacred cause in which they have enlisted.","The Daughters of Va. whose fair hands have wrought this beautiful emblem of Va.'s honor, will never have cause to blush for shame at the conduct of their brothers.","I am very respectfully \nYour obedient servant \nWilliam D. Stuart, Col. \nCommanding 56th Va. Regt.","Adjt and Insp Genls Office \nRichmond, Nov 21st 1861 \nExtract \nSpecial Orders \nNo 232","XI. The 56th Regiment Virginia Volunteers, Col. Stuart Commanding, will proceed without delay, via Wytheville, to Jeffersonville, VA. and report for duty to Brig. Genl. Marshall.","By Command of the Sec. of War \nJno. Withers \nAsst. Adjt. Genl.","Head Quarters Brigade \nPound Gap \n1 Dec 1861","Col. Stuart, \nSir, \nIn reply to your note reporting your command to me, I direct that you move your regiment forward by Pound Gap towards Prestonburg in Kentucky, as soon as possible after the reception of the order, unless you should receive other directions from Maj. Genl. George B. Crittenden at Knoxville.","I am sir, \nYour obedient servant, \nHumphrey Marshall \nBrig. Genl.","Some of the wagoners I hired and started left the teams on the road. I am compelled to go to Abingdon by private conveyance ad will purchase some waggons \u0026 c by the way and hire other wagoners.","W. Gibboney \nA. Q. M.","Transportation Office C.S.A \nWytheville, Va. December 2nd 1861 \nCol. W. D. Stuart \nCom. 56th Regt. Va. Vols. \nAbingdon Va.","Colonel, \nThe Frt. Agt. of the Va. and Tenn. R. R. has requested me to give him vouchers for the transportation of the stores in the Train which accompanied that containing your Regiment from Wytheville to Abigdon and allso for the baggage of the Regiment.","Will you please inform me whether you have already provided receipt for the transportation and whether the baggage was entitled to transportable from government. I have the honor to be","Very Respectfully \nYour obedient servant \nA. Meade Smith \nCapt. \u0026 [Acting] QM CSA","Hd. Qts. Knoxville, Tenn \nDec. 5th 1861","To- \nCol. Stuart \nCommd. 56th Regt. Va. Vols.","You will move with your Regiment as soon as transportation can be furnished to you, to Nashville Tenn.","By Command of \nMaj. Genl. G. B. Crittenden \nA.S. Cunningham \nA.A. Genl.","Received at: Abingdon Dec 10 1861","By Telegraph from: Knoxville Dec 10 \nTo: Col. Stuart","Genl. Johnson orders that your Regiment remain with Genl. Marshall W. H. Carroll \nBrig. Genl.","Received at: Abingdon Dec 11 1861 \nBy Telegraph from: Richmond Dec 11 \nTo: Col. W. D. Stuart","Proceed with your Regiment to Pound Gap and report to Genl. Marshall. The Quarter Masters Dept. is ordered to furnish transportation.","S. Cooper \nA. G.","Headquarters 1st Brigade \nArmy of Eastern Ky. \nCamp near Paintville \nDec 21st 1861","Special Order \nNo. 8","Col. Stuart is directed to move his Regiment from Abingdon immediately with such transportation as can be procured. It is of the first importance to the safety and success of the command on this frontier that the reinforcements destined for the forces already here shall move to the front without delay. Fine opportunities for brilliant successes have been lost for want of their presence ad others are daily passing away. The weather has favored the\nmovement of the troops, but has not been taken at advantage. The General directs that the movement be commenced without further delay and that the passage of the troops over Pound Gap be notified to him by the returning courier.","By order of \nBrig. Genl. H. Marshall \nAtt. B. H. Bradley \nA. Adjt. Genl.","1861 December 22 \nPaintsville, KY 22nd Dec.","Col. Stuart, \nI send express to you to move your regiment without delay. I am before a force so much superior to me in number, according to the report of reliable scouts, that I can scarcely hope to avoid a collision-- it may be disastrous to us- until you arrive.","If there are any forces near your route who are disengaged I would like exceedingly to have them assist me now. I am here with a force not amounting to 1500 men fit for duty. I shall struggle to keep off the evil day as long possible for you to arrive.","Yours truly \u0026 c \nH. Marshall \nBrig. Genl.","[note on back] \nPress transportation any where you can, if it is not ready, but travel lightly for the roads are deep. H.M.","Adj. [\u0026] Inspect. Genl's Office \nRichmond Dec 24/61","Sir, \nThe Secretary of War directs that you immediately proceed to carry out the instructions referred to in your comn of the 23rd inst. by reporting, with all your effective force, for duty to Brig. General Marshall, making proper provisions for your sick at Abingdon.","Very Respectfully \nYour Obd. Servt. \nR. H. Chilton \nA. Genl.","Lt. Col. Philip P. Slaughter \nOr/ Commanding Officer \n56 Reg. Va. Vols. \nAbingdon , Va.","Abingdon (Va) Dec 27th 1861","To- \nCol. Wm. D Stuart","Dear Sir: \nSince my arrival I have received orders to go immediately to Pound Gap from both the Sec. of War and Gen. Marshall. The order from Gen. M is both peremptory and urgent, and it is asource of the greatest mortification to me to find that, at so critical a juncture we are totally impotent, and I much fear (\"entre nous\") our reputation may suffer in the mind of the public\nwho cannot be aware of the embarrassing circumstances by which we are surrounded. I think it would be well if you could represent us in our true colors to the War Dept. Genl. M. writes that he is threatened by a superior force and urges our immediate movement which I am unable to comply with, not having more than eight or nine waggons and no horses. At the very earliest moment possible I will move on to Pound Gap with the fragment of the Regt.","From what I have learned since writing the above, the opinion prevails in Richmond that the Regt. declined transportation on account of the \"onerous march across the mountains\". You can judge of the correctness of this statement. Such seems to be the prevailing opinion in the War. Dept. Can you do any thing for us? I am in the worst quandary I ever was in my life.\nPlease telegraph me at your earliest convenience.","I think a court of inquiry would be beneficial to us: at all events, it could not injure us.","Yours very respectfully \nP. P. Slaughter \nFavor of \nCapt. R. B. Patterson \nQ.M.","P. S. \nI enclose you Genl. Marshall's orders, that you may see how we stand. I retain a copy of them. You will also find enclosed, the order from War Dept. P. P. S.","Abingdon Dec. 27th 1861","To- \nBrig. Gen. Marshall","Sir, \nI am in receipt of your order of the 22nd inst. as well as your Special Order No. 8. It is a source of exceeding regret and much mortification to me, to find myself in so crippled a condition at such a critical junction. Twice since being here I have prepared transportation in accordance with orders, once to join your command, which, when I got ready, I was compelled to decline by an order from Gen. Crittenden \"to go immediately to Nashville and report to Gen. A. S. Johnston. I then went to work to get transportation by rail, to Nashville, which I after some days effected. My men were at the Depot ready to march on the cars, when I received a telegram to remain and go with you; since which time I have not been able to collect the necessary No. of waggons to convey the Regt. in obedience to orders.","The Regt. is reduced lower than one half its original size, and is at present in a very debilitated condition. Col. Stuart, by reason of sickness has not been able to take command of the Regt. since leaving Richmond. Maj. Green is absent, all of which combine to place me in a very unenviable position upon the receipt of your orders.","As to the matter of transportation, I have only eight or ten wagons and no horses, as the Quartermaster informs me.","I shall endeavor to the utmost of my ability to move at the earliest time possible and most sincerely hope I may be able to join you in season to render some assistance in the existing emergency.","This will be handed to you by Capt. T. Smith of the 56th Regt. in whom you can place all confidence.","I did not see your courier or I should have dispatched by him. He left before I could reach the village.","I am sir very respectfully \nYour obt. Servt. \nPhilip P. Slaughter \nLt. Col. Comd. 56th Va. Regt.","Abigdon, Va. Dec 27th 1861","Dear Colonel, \n'Tis said and I more than partly believe that we are to move to Marshall's Command per Pound Gap and that in some what of a hurry. Your command is worse off in the matter of sick men than when you left. There are forty men in the Hospital and the number would be greater in there were room. The number of sick men in camp and private houses is hardly to be believed,\nbut I think I am in bounds when I say that if 250 men rank and file are able to march now, 'tis more than I expect. But 'tis hardly friendly to trouble you with such things so I'll only say that we \"what can go\" are going and no mistake. I hear you have some idea of joining us immediately. Don't hurry unless you are really strong enough; for I know your impetuosity of old.","In great haste \nM. Howard","Adjt and Inspr. Genl's Office \nRichmond, Jany 2 1862 \nExtract \nSpecial Order \nNo. 1","Colonel Stuart's 56th Regiment Virginia Volunteers is detached from General Humphrey Marshall's Command and will immediately proceed to Bowling Green Kentucky and report to General A.S. Johnston for duty with General Floyds Brigade.","By Command of the Secretary of War \nJohn Withers \nAsst. Adjt Genl.","Abingdon (Va) Jan. 4th 1862 \nCol. Wm. D. Stuart","Dear Sir, \nOn yesterday, I received from Captain Patteson the following telegram. \"Col. Stuart says, leave Jacob and his baggage\". The dispatch said nothing of the horse. I was in much doubt about him. Before determining, I mentioned the matter to Dr. Howard, who by the way, has been confined to his bed for a week, \u0026 is unable to proceed with the Regt. and intends keeping his horse with him. After reading the telegram, he advised me to leave your horse in care of Jacob. All your baggage, that is, all I imagine was meant, consisting of a horse, saddle \u0026 bridle, sword, bed, trunk, field glasses, canteen, etc. I turned over to Mr. Benham, saw them placed together in a room and showed them to Jacob.","Six companies of the Regt. have gone in under command of Capt. Boswell. The others will go tonight. I am much afraid we may be detained somewhat at Union, the first burnt bridge; but our great object is to get away as fast as possible from the road to Pound Gap. I will send you a copy of the order from the Sec of War.","Jacob, during our troubles has been invaluable to me; indeed, while attending to my immensible duties, I think I would have starved but for his providing hand \u0026 it is almost certain I would have lost everything I have, but for his care. I envy you very much the possession of so valuable \u0026 reliable a servant.","I told him he would either keep his horse in the Quartermaster's stables or at Mr. Benham's. In case I misinterpreted your wishes concerning him, and you should desire him to be sent on, write to Dr. Howard, who expects to carry his own, \u0026 it will be as easy to carry two as one. Should you adopt this suggestion, you had better write immediately.","Jacob desires me to say he is tolerable well and would like to hear from you as soon as convenient to know what course he is to pursue.","Maj. Green has not returned as yet. Two of Capt. Richardson's men deserted last night. I think we have some thirty sick in the hospital.","Hoping this may find you rapidly recovering and that you are able to rejoin us speedily.","I am sir, very respectfully \nP. P. Slaughter","[on back]\nCopy of Order from Sec. Of War \nExtract \nAdj. \u0026 Inspect. Genl's Office \nRichmond Jan 2th 1862 \nSpecial Order \nNo. 1:","XV. Colonel Stuart's 56th Regt. Virginia Volunteers, is detached from General Humphrey Marshall's Command and will immediately proceed to Bowling Green, Kentucky and report to General A. S. Johnston for duty with General Floyd's Brigade.","By Command of the Secretary of War \nJno. Withers \nAsst. Adjt. Genl. Col. 56th Va. Vols. \nTo \nCommanding Officer C. S. Forces \nAbingdon Va.","Richmond, Va. \nFeb 5th 62","Genl. Cooper, \nSir, \nI beg leave to submit he following statement to the Department in refutation of the report, circulated I understand at the Head Qrs. by the Brigade Quartermaster of Genl. Humphrey Marshall's, to the effect that I had refused transportation for my command, from Abingdon to Prestonsburg the point to which I was ordered by Genl. Marshall. The enclosed letter written at\nthe time to the Department has bearing upon this point. The following is a literal copy of the order from Genl. Marshall by my messenger Capt. Taylor sent to inquire to which point I should march.","Head Quarters Brigade \nPound Gap 1 Dec 1861","Col. Stuart, \nSir, \nIn reply to your note reporting your command to me, I direct that you move your regiment forward by Pound Gap towards Prestonsburg in Kentucky, as soon as possible after the reception of this order, unless you should receive directions from Major Genl. George B. Crittenden at Knoxville.","I am sir \nYour Obt. Servt. \nHumphrey Marshall \nBrig. Genl.","This order was received late at night and a verbal message by Capt. Taylor that a messenger had been sent to Genl. Crittenden to inform him of my presence in Abingdon and that he should write order me to join him if necessary. Not hearing from Genl. Crittenden in forty-eight hours after, I sent Lieut. Col. Slaughter to Knoxville to find out from him at once whether I should expect orders from him and he replied by Telegraph through Capt. Cunningham his A. A. Genl.ordering me to Nashville \u0026 Col. Slaughter returned the following day bringing the following order by which this is an exact copy.","Hd. Qrs. Knoxville Tenn. \nDec. 5th 1861 \nTo Col Stuart \nCommand. 56th Regt. Va. Vols.","Sir, \nYou will move with your Regiment as soon as transportation can be furnished to Nashville, Tenn.","By Command of \nMaj. Genl. G. B. Crittenden \nS. Cunningham A.Genl.","The interval between the reception of these orders was employed by me busily in attempting to procure transportation and finding no Quarter Master at Abingdon, I sent to Wytheville for Capt. Gibboney A. Q. M. at that point to report at Abingdon and assist me. My own QuarterMaster was without funds for that purpose. Capt. Gibboney arrived bringing with him waggons purchased on the road and by the time of the reception of the order from Genl. Crittenden, I had enough transportation on hand, by leaving some articles behind to enable me to reach Prestonsburg. Of course after the order of Genl. Crittenden, I had no use for the waggons and ordered them immediately to be loaded with supplies of ordnance and other belongings to Genl. Marshall and forwarded to him","Immediately upon the receipt of Genl. Crittenden's order, so uncertain was telegraphic communication, I sent my Quarter Master to Lynchburg to arrange for transportation by rail to Nashville and had already procured it and would have been on the way to Nashville but for the bursting of one of the [flues] of the engines, when I received the following order by Telegraph\nreceived in Abingdon Dec 10th about dark.","Knoxville Dec 10th \nTo Col. Stuart,\nGenl. A . S. Johnston orders that your Regiment remain with Genl. Marshall. \nW. H. Carroll \nBrig. Genl.","Upon the reception of this order I immediately telegraphed the Department to know whose orders I should obey? In the meantime the waggons I had secured for my Regiment were on the way to Pound Gap and I was thus compelled to\ncommence again to prepare transportation for that trip.","I had been quite unwell with jaundice ad the Surgeon finding that we would be compelled to go to Pound Gap told me that he would not answer for the consequences should I undertake to go and advised my return to Richmond, where I have been confined to my room with a severe attack of Rheumatism until within the last ten days. I left the Regiment under command of Lt. Col. Slaughter and I know that the delay in proceeding to join Genl. Marshall arose from no indisposition on his part to execute the orders, but from an absolute inability to procure the necessary transportation.\nThere can be found in the service no officer more active, intelligent and competent to the discharge of the duties of his position. We are anxious if there is the slightest doubt remaining on the mind of the Honl. Sec. as to the want of proper activity on the part of the officer of the Regiment to move forward, that he will order a Court of Inquiry that the matter may be thoroughly sifted.","I have the honor to be \nYour obt. servt. \nWm. D. Stuart, Col. \n56th Va. Regt.","Genl. Hospital \nRichmd. March 4 1862","Wm. T Cross, Private Co. E. 56 Reg. Va. Vols. has been in this hospital since 1 Nov 1861 with Secondary Syphilis. He has now Syphilitic Rheumatism \u0026 as his turn of enlistment will expire in June, I recommend his discharge from the service.","I. Beu. Gibson \nSurg. P. A. C. S. \nRichmond Genl. Hospital","Official business \nWm. D. Stuart \nCol: 56 Regt.","Sir, \nEnclosed please find Certificate of disability for Private W. T. Cross. It must be approved by the Capt. of his Co. \u0026 Col. of the Reg. \u0026 returned to me- at least this is the usual form.","If there is a prospect of obtaining his discharge at once, I would prefer his remaining in the Hospital until it is received here.","Very resp. \nI. B. Gibson \nSurg. P. A. C. S. \nRichmd Genl. Hospital","Richmond Arsenal \nMarch 8th 1862","My Dear Colonel, \nThis will be handed you by my friend Col. W. D Stuart 56 Va. Vols. who is about joining his Regiment, at present attached to your Department. Col. Stuart has by severe sickness been detained from following a career so nobly begun at Bethel.","His health is now sufficiently restored to justify his joining his command. I bespeak for him your kind consideration in advance, because having known him intimately from boyhood to the present time, I declare him to be a \"gentleman and a soldier\", as Lear was a king- \"every inch\".","Your Friend \nBriscoe G. Baldwin \nCapt. Arty. P. [A?] \nCol. W. W. Mackall \nA. A. Genl.","Head Quarters Floyd's Division \nChattanooga, Mar 17th 1862 \nGeneral Order \nNo. 246","The reenlisted men of this command are entitled to a furlough of sixty days at home, but in case of a collision with the enemy at Knoxville this will be suspended for one week.","By order \nBrig. Gen. Floyd \n[C. Derrick] \nA.A. Gen.","Official \n[Mr]Robin Terry \nA.A. A Gen.","Headquarters Floyd's Division \nCamp [? Childress] Mar 17 1862 \nGeneral Orders \nNo. 27 \nExtract","The entire command will move tomorrow morning on the cars in the following order. 1st Headquarters, 2d Artillery, 3d. 1st Brigade, 4th 2d Brigade.","The 1st Brigade will load its baggage on the cars at 9 o'clock in the [trn]-yard just across the bridge arranging so that their baggage or wagons will not be in the way of Head Qrs.","By order Brig. Gen. Floyd \nPeter Otey \nA.A. Gen","Official \nMr. Robbin Terry \nA.A. A Gen.","Head Qrs Floyd Division \nKnoxville, March 19th/62 \nSpecial Orders \nNo--","Having been relieved from my command I hereby turn over the troops under me to the command of Col. Maney commanding forces at Knoxville Tennessee. The commanding officers of Regts will report for duty at once to Col. Maney","By order Brigdr Gen. Floyd \nPeter Otey \nA.A.G.","The Field Officers and officers commanding regiments will report at these HdQrs as soon as practicable. The General desires to introduce these gentlemen to the commanding officer Col. Maney.","By direction \nBrigdr Gen. Floyd \nPeter Otey \nA.A.G.","Head Quarters Knoxville \nMarch 19th 1862","Col. Stuart \nCommnd. 56th Va. Regt.","You will hold your Regt. ready to move at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Send to these Headquarters by 8 ½O'clock tomorrow morning a report of the strength of your command for duty.","Geo. Maury \nCol. Comdg. at Knoxville.","Hd. Quarters Knoxville \n20th March 1862","Colonel \nW. D. Stuart \n56 Va. Regiment","You are hereby directed to take command of all the forces here, formerly of Genl. Floyd's command in the movement towards Jacksboro. Capt. B. W. Snyder Qr. Master will report to you as Qr. Master for your command. He will be furnished with twelve 4 horse wagons for transportation of your command. If this transportation is more than sufficient for the tents, cooking utensils and ammunition necessary for your command you will please direct your commissary, whom you may select from your command, to load the unappropriated wagons with Flour and Bacon for which he will make requisition on the post commissary at this place.","Respectfully, \nGeo. Maney \nCol. Commanding \nForces at Knoxville","Hd Qrs Knoxville Mch 20th/62 \nSpecial Order \nNo--","Col. Stuart will move with his command tomorrow morning at 6 o'clk on the road to Clinton. You will have rations for one day cooked tonight.","By comd of \nCol. George Maney Comdg Post \nR.B. Snowden Adjt.","Head Qrs Knoxville, March 21st 1862 \nSpecial Order No-","Col Stuart \nYou will hold your command, composed of the 36th, 50th, 51st and 56th Regts in readiness to move at 4 o'clk this afternoon towards Jacksboro.","Col. George Maney Comdg Post \nR.B. Snowden Adj't.","Col. Stuart \nI am instructed by Col. Maney to say you will not put your command on the march until further orders. You are however instructed to hold it ready to move at a moment's notice.","R. B. Snowden Adjt. \nKnoxville March 21st 1862","Hd. Quarters Knoxville \nMarch 21st 1862","Col. Stuart \nCommand. of Floyd Brigade","Your order to march toward Clinton is revoked. I desire to see you at my Hd. Quarters in person at first convenient moment to regard to encamping your command here.","Very Respectfully \nGeo. Maney Col. \nCommnd. At Knoxville","Lebanon, 31st March 1862","Col. Stuart, \nOf so much of your order of the 28th as proposes the formation of a camp near Abingdon by the unfurloughed officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates of \"Floyd's Brigade\", I shall express no opinion at this time. I presume your halt at Abingdon, for instructions from Richmond, was in pursuance of your duty under the direction of Major General Smith. I am glad he has force to spare.","The others parts of your order I cheerfully approve and will sustain. I know of no vice so fatal to our soldiery as intemperance; and, independent of the loss of many genial fellows to the cause in which our swords are drawn, their fall is the gain of the meanest and the most heartless men in community. The vigor of authority shall not be wanting on my part to sustain every effort to limit the pernicious vice.","I enclose an Order, which please hand to Maj. Fisher that he may have a few struck off and sent after such of my men as have left Abingdon.","Your vindicatory note has been successful I imagine in proving that you did not delay marching last winter intentionally, but the failure to join me was a great misfortune to this command.","I am ready however to look forward and not backwards, and hope our acquaintance may be as agreeable in its continuance as it has been awkward in its beginning.","Yours Respectfully, \nH. Marshall \nBrig. Genl. Comd.","Apr 1st 1862 \nCol. Stuart","Dear Sir, \nThe bearer of this note Mr. Hanshew is the father of the soldier in the 50th Regt. The young man is at present in hospital and has been quite a sufferer. He was sick in the autumn and before fairly recovered was taken to the west. He was subjected to all the exposure and hardships at Ft. Donelson where he was frost bitten in the trenches. The retreat and long march have proved too much for him and he is really quite worn out. His father wishes to take\nhim home for a few weeks if possible to [illegible] him \u0026 I think it important for the young man to go. I know the father well, he is worthy of trust and is a man of excellent character.","I am sir very truly yours \nJohn B. Floyd","Confederate States of America \nTREASURY DEPARTMENT \nFIRST AUDITOR'S OFFICE \nApr. 8th 1862","Dear Mr. Stuart, \nI think I shall die if I don't manage to get with the Army in some capacity or other, \u0026 as the circumstances of my family do not admit of my going as a private, I must try to obtain some position which will pay. I have not the presumption to ask for a commission in the Infantry or Artillery, where a knowledge of military tactics is essential, but as all the appointments are not made in the Engineers Corps \u0026 for that a knowledge of Mathematics more than anything else is required, I have thought that I might possibly by some study in the meanwhile fit myself for a position in the Engineers. I would not myself have thought such to be the case, but for the assurance of a friend, who is in the Corps \u0026 and after considerable experience says that I am fully capable of filling such a position creditably. The object of my writing this letter therefore is to request that you will give me a testimonial to be presented to the Sec. of War, who would doubtless be influenced by what you say. Possibly with that \u0026 what I may get old Bledsoe, the Asst. Sec. to say for me, I may obtain a Lieutenancy in the Engineers.","If Frank had been successful I would not myself apply, but I suppose his application is pretty securely pigeon holed \u0026 he will never hear from it, though Tom Harris is now in the city \u0026 a member of the Military Committee of Congress.","I saw Aunt F. last night and she and the children are in good spirits, looking forward to visiting you in Abingdon, in accordance with your letter of recent date. Aunt F. was glad to hear of your being so well \u0026 comfortably fixed \u0026 perhaps her cheerfulness is only the reflection from your good spirits, as she learns from your letters \u0026 others who have seen you.","Ma and the children are pleasantly fixed in Danville \u0026 are all very well: Frank was at Orange C. H. when I heard from him, though there is a rumor that his division went down to reinforce Magurder. The sky is brightening. I have not time to write more at present. Hoping to hear from you soon, I remain yours affectionately. \nW.R. Abbott","Abingdon 20th April 1862 \nCol. Stuart","Dear Sir, \nMrs. Saunders, the bearer of this is the mother of the boy who is applying for a discharge on the score of minority. I sent you the certificate, \u0026 c some days ago. I have no doubt of his being under age. She wants to know the conditions of his application. May I ask you to let her know it?","With the highest respect \nYour obd. Servt. \nJohn B. Floyd","Confederate States of America \nWAR DEPARTMENT \nEngineer's Bureau \nRichmond, Va. 30 April 1862","Genl. G. W. Randolph \nSecretary of War","Sir, \nI have had the pleasure of knowing Col. W. D. Stuart for many years. At Lexington where we were cadets together, his peculiar qualifications as a soldier and tactician, on graduating, led to his immediate appointment as assistant instructor of infantry and artillery tactics, a position\nwhich he held with much credit for three years. Since the commencement of the war he has been constantly engaged on active service, first on the Peninsula and afterwards in the West. In the first locality I had the pleasure of again meeting him and heard him uniformly spoken of as a gallant, efficient, and accomplished officer.","In these days of uncertain tenure of office, your endorsement of the substance of this letter would probably be of great service to him, especially as his standing on the Peninsula and conduct in the Battle of Bethel are personally known to you.","With great respect, your obedient servant, \nA. L. Rives \nActing Chf. Eng. Bu.","War Department \nApril 30th 1862","I take great pleasure in bearing the testimony to the gallantry and conduct of Col. Stuart at the Battle of Bethel of which I was an eye witness, and to his efficiency as an officer and his deportment as a gentleman. He is an educated soldier and I should be sorry for the Country to lose his services. \nGeo. W. Randolph","Camp near Winchester, Va. \nOct 26 1862","My dear Colonel: \nI have rec'd your report of the battle of \"South Mountain\" and with it your very kind note.","I can truly assure you I was much gratified with the expressions of regard and esteem you therein expressed towards me. My brief association with you was among the most pleasant I have formed during the war and I sincerely trust it may be renewed at no distant time, under such auspices that we may be able to cultivate a still closer intimacy. With many prayers for you safety and happiness I remain truly your friend \nR. B. Garnett","Provost Marshal's Office \nLynchburg, Va. \nOct 30th 1862 \nCol. W. D. Stuart","Dear Sir, \nI received this morning a letter from one of the 56th Va. Regt. informing me that \"you \u0026 Maj. Green intended to write to the War Department and endeavor if possible to have me relieved of duty here and ordered to return to Regt.\" I at first doubted its authenticity, but seeing it was from a semi-official source I necessarily attached some importance to it.","I was astonished to hear that you contemplated such a thing as it would undoubtedly place me in a false light before the Department. I presumed you had received official notification of my appointment here.","I have always thought you were magnanimous enough not only to be willing for any officer of your Regt. to obtain promotion and a better position, but would aid him if possible in doing so.","I informed you in three letters before that I applied in Sept. last to Q. M. for transportation to Regt. and applying the same day to Adjt. Gen. Cooper in person to ascertain the point to go to, was directed by him to report to Maj. Gen. Smith for duty. By whom I was sent to Brig. Gen. Winder who ordered me to take charge of the C. S. Military Prison. I remained there about three weeks and discharged the duties satisfactorily to my commissioning officer and was on the 21st Oct. appointed \"Provost Marshal\" of this city with written orders from Maj. Gen. G. W. Smith, a copy of which I send you.","Each position was unsolicited and unexpected by me; but at the same time agreeable ad satisfactory; because the \"posts\" I was assigned were not only easier and higher than the Capt. of Infantry, but also horses and servants furnished me, and paid $180 per month. The pay however is no consideration with me. The chances of promotion are still greater in my present position.","I will also state to you, that is I preferred it, I am legally exempt from military duty by the recent \"exemption act\" passed by both \"Houses of Congress\" and approved by the President. First I have a plantation with over 40 negroes, and on it \"no white male adult not liable to military duty.\" Second I have a large manufacturing mill and my superintendence is necessary for its successful operation. For either 1st or 2nd reasons I am exempt by \"Act of Congress\".","But notwithstanding pecuniary losses I am willing to remain in the army, provided my services will accomplish anything in the cause we are engaged.","I hope this will be satisfactory to you. I fear you did not receive my former letters making substantially the same statements as above; and I feel a conscientious sense of duty, in justice to myself to write to you again","The appointment here was somewhat complimentary to me and I have intimations already of a higher and more responsible position being assigned me.","I would be glad if you would answer this.","Very respectfully \nYour obt. Servant \nThomas D. Jeffress \nCapt. and Provost Marshall of Lynchburg","P.S. I understand that only 8 or 10 efficient men of Co. \"G\" are with the Regt. and only about 22 or 23 in all on roll. I left several in Richmond at Hospital who will probably never recover sufficiently to return to duty. \nT. D. J.","18th Va. Regt. \nNov. 26th 1862 \nCol. W. D. Stuart","Col., \nIn reply to your note rec'd some time since asking of the \"mention made\" of Capt. T. D. Jeffress \"upon\" a report of one of the Richmond battles forwarded by myself to Brigade Hd. Qrs., I have to say that Capt. Jeffress made out the report of the battle himself, he being the Senr. Officer present who was in the fight. When the report was handed to me Lt. Chaffin Actg. Adjt. told me that the officers of the Regt. desired that I should make mention of the good conduct of Capt. Jeffress in battle, as the Capt. from motives of delicacy would of course say nothing of himself. I endorsed upon the report that I was not in the battle myself, was not in command of the Regiment at the time the events spoken of occurred, but that at the request of others, I would state that Capt. Jeffress deserved \"honorable mention\" for good conduct in battle. I have since learned that Lt. Chaffin was not in the fight himself and I am sorry that I acted upon his suggestion and made the endorsement referred to for the reason that I appeared to discriminate in favor of Capt. Jeffress when in fact I knew nothing of the conduct of any officer in the Regiment in the battle alluded to.","I am Col. \nVery Respectfully \nGeo. C. Cabell, Major","Camp Near Petersburg \nof Pickett's Div. Garnett's Brig. \nMarch 7th 1863 \nGenl. S. A. Cooper","Sir, \nI respectfully make an application for 25 Conscripts the requisite number to fill the reduced ranks of my Company at its present standard. You will confer a favour by assigning to the ranks of my Company 25 Conscripts,or any number as you, in your judgement may think proper or circumstances may require. You can see by my muster roll that my company only numbers 31 total present or absent, having never received any Conscripts since its entry into\nservice.","Most Respectfully \nYour obedient Servt. \nF. W. Nelson \nLt. Comd. Co. \"A\" 56th Va.","Camp Near Petersburg, Va. \nMarch 7th 1863","I respectfully ask permission to be absent from my duties for a few days for the following reasons. My property has been dwindling away daily since 25th Dec last, for want of my personal attention. My negroes are roaming through the country without a proper home and I will probably lose them all if I cannot attend to the matter immediately. I leave my company in command of the Capt. I have deferred asking leave of absence until now, because of there being only two (2) officers belonging to the company and the comdg. Officer of the Regt. deems it best that the vacancies of 2nd and 2nd jr. Lieuts. should not be filled at present, I presume because of the smallness of the Co. I reenlisted as a private and have never received a furlough or anything in lieu thereof and have never been absent without leave.","S. D. Cronin 1st Lieut. \nCo. \"I\" 56th Va. Regt.","March 8th, 1863","I respectfully ask for a leave of absence for 20 days to visit my home in Mecklenburg Co. Va. having been in the service for 20 months and having never received but four days furlough since the organization of my Regiment. I hope this application will be granted. I was originally a 12 months Volunteer and subsequently reenlisted for the War.","Lieut. F. W. Nelson \nCo. A. 56th Va. Regt.","Kittrell's Springs \nJuly 27th 1863 \nCol. Wm. D. Stuart","Dear Sir, \nI was transferred from General Hospital No. 10 to Black's and White's Hospital, from that place on the recommendation of the Medical Director in Richmond (Dr. Wm. Carrington) I was allowed the privilege of going home and report once in fifteen days in person or through my Physician's certificate. My furlough was extended the other day, 30 days to enable me to visit\nthe Springs for my health. I am improving very rapidly mow and shall be on, as soon as I am able for duty. You have passed though a very fiery ordeal since I left you. I regret being absent from my company in time of battle. I am truly sorry to learn that you are wounded, hope it will not prove serious, and allow me here to indulge the hope that you will be Genl. Garrett's successor. You certainly deserve the place. I am very anxious to hear from my company. I heard indirectly that Lieut. Finley was wounded, whether seriously or not I did not learn. Pickett's Division was very badly cut up. The mortality among officers was unprecedented. I expect to be here at least two weeks longer. I wish to get entirely well before returning. When I return again I hope to be able to stay with you. Direct your letter to \"Lawrenceville. Brunswick Co. Va.\" With my best wishes that you may speedily recover and when I see you again you may be my Brigadier. I subscribe myself your true friend, \nN. A. Flournoy","The bulk of the William D. Stuart papers consists of the Civil War papers (60 items; 1861-1863) of Stuart. The papers contain:\n Correspondence to and from various Confederate Army officers Morning and guard reports Military orders Invoices and receipts documenting Stuart's brief service with the 15th Virginia Infantry Regiment and his command of the 56th Virginia Infantry Regiment \nOther items include letters of recommendation for a United\nStates Army Commission (1850), a letter from Gabriel Jordan, Jr. (VMI Class of 1850) dated November 1854, and printed material.","Written from VMI, Lexington, Virginia. Letter endorses William D. Stuart's application for a commission in the United States Army.","Written from VMI, Lexington, Virginia. Letter endorses William D. Stuart's application for a commission in the United States Army.","Written from VMI, Lexington, Virginia. Letter endorses William D. Stuart's application for a commission in the United States Army.","Written from Huntsville, Alabama. Letter comments on respective marriages, jobs, and future prospects.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Letter asks Virginia Governor John Letcher for an appointment in the Army in the event of secession.","Special Order No. 81 from Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart is assigned to duty with troops at the camp of instruction.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Letter expresses regret at William D. Stuart's resignation as commanding officer of the Richmond City Guard.","Written from the Camp of Instruction, Richmond. Letter to an unidentified colonel regards the placement of William D. Stuart and other officers.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Letter regards materials to make a tent.","Written from Williamsburg, Virginia. Letter orders William D. Stuart to work on fortifications at King's Mill.","Special Order No. 222 from Youngs Farm. Regards payment of troops and powers of attorney. By command of General Magruder and signed by G. B. Cosby, A.A.A.G.","Special Order No. 280 from the Adjutant Inspector General's office, Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart is promoted and assigned to the command of the 56th Virginia Regiment.","Written from Camp Lee. Letter regards a flag for William D. Stuart's regiment.","Special Order No. 232 from Richmond, Virginia by command of Secretary of War per John Withers. The 56th Virginia Infantry regiment is ordered to Jeffersonville, Virginia to report to Brigadier General Marshall.","Written from Pound Gap, Virginia. William D. Stuart is ordered to move his regiment forward by Pound Gap towards Prestonsburg, Kentucky.","Written from Wytheville, Virginia. Telegram regards wagons.","Written from Wytheville, Virginia. Letter regards transportation vouchers.","Written from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart's regiment is ordered to Nashville, Tennessee.","Written from Knoxville, Tennessee. General A. S. Johnson orders William D. Stuart's regiment to remain with General Marshall.","From Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart's regiment is to proceed to Pound Gap to report to General Marshall.","Special Order No. 8 from Headquarters 1st Brigade, Army of Eastern Kentucky, Camp near Paintville, by order of General Marshall. William D. Stuart's regiment is to move immediately without further delay.","Written from Paintville, Kentucky. William D. Stuart must move his regiment without delay.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart is directed by the Secretary of War to report to General Marshall.","Written from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter concerns orders to go to Pound Gap, Virginia.","Written from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter regards contradictory orders and illness of William D. Stuart and men.","Written from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter reprts on sickness of regiment and men in hospital.","Special Order No. 1 from Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart's regiment\nis detached from General Marshall's command and will proceed to Bowling Green, Kentucky to General A. S. Johnston.","Written from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter regards order to proceed to Bowling Green, Kentucky. Letter also encloses Special Order No. 1 (dated January 2, 1862).","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Letter regards confusion in orders to 56th Virginia Infantry Regiment.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Letter regards William T. Cross' certificate of disability.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Letter regards William D. Stuart rejoining his regiment after a severe illness.","General Order No. 246 from Floyd's Division, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Reenlisted men are entitled to a 60 day furlough, but this may be suspended in case of \"collision with the enemy.\"","General Order No. 27 (extract) from Floyd's Division, Camp Bettie Childress. Order regards movement of the command via rail.","Special Order from Floyd's Division, Knoxville, Tennessee. General Floyd is relieved of command and regimental commanders are to report to Colonel George Maney.","Written from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is to hold his regiment ready to move and to report on the strength of his command.","Written from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is directed to \"take command of all the forces here, formerly of Genl Floyd's command, in the movement towards Jacksboro.\"","Special order from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is to move tomorrow on the road to Clinton.","Special Order from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is to hold command of the 36th, 50th, 51st and 56th Virginia Regiments in readiness to move towards Jacksboro.","Written from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is not to move his command until further orders.","Written from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart march towards Clinton is revoked.","Written from Lebanon. Letter regards previous orders.","Letter regards releasing a sick soldier (Hanshew, 50th Virginia Regiment) to go home with his father.","Letter requests recommendation to enter the Confederate Army and family news.","Written from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter regards discharge of an underage soldier.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Letter commends William D. Stuart, with an endorsement specifically about his gallantry at the Battle of Bethel, Virginia.","Written from Winchester, Virginia. Letter acknowledges receipt of report of Battle of South Mountain (Maryland) and expresses personal regard.","Written from Lynchburg, Virginia. Letter protests Thomas D. Jeffress' return to the Regiment.","Letter regards a report in which George C. Cabell erroneously commended Captain Thomas D. Jeffress.","Written from Petersburg, Virginia. Letter requests 25 conscripts to fill reduced ranks.","Written from Petersburg, Virginia. Letter requests to be absent from duty to see to business at home.","Letter requests a leave of absence to visit home.","Written from Kittrell's Springs, North Carolina. This letter was written after the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and it comments on casualties in regiment and general news.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Telegram regards search of trains for stolen coffee.","Report for the 56th Virginia Regiment at Camp Robertson.","Report for the 56th Virginia Regiment at Camp Robertson.","Special duty roster for the 56th Virginia Regiment.","Guard report for the 56th Virginia Regiment.","Receipt for wall tent pins and poles.","Receipt for ordnance (cartridges).","Invoice of commutation of quarters and fuel for 1st Lieutenant George W. May, Company C. 56th Virginia, for the period of December 8 to 31, 1861.","Invoice of commutation of quarters and fuel for 1st Lieutenant George W. May, Company C. 56th Virginia, for the period of January 1 to 31, 1862.","Receipt for wall tents.","Two receipts for muskets and cartridge boxes.","Receipt for clothing.","Receipt for commissary stores.","This series includes a draft of a speech given upon presentation of a flag to the 56th Virginia Infantry Regiment, court-martial specifications, and other documents.","This series includes programs and other documents from Roanoke, Virginia area camps.","Manuscript collections in the VMI Archives are made available for educational and research use. The VMI Archives should be cited as the source. The user assumes all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any copyright holders. Materials from our collections may not be redistributed, published or reproduced without permission from the VMI Archives. Contact the VMI Archives for additional information.","Manuscripts stacks","Virginia Military Institute Archives","Stuart, William D. (William Dabney), 1830-1863","Smith, Francis H. 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He was mortally wounded at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania during Pickett's Charge, and died in a hospital in Staunton on July 29, 1863."],"custodhist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe William D. Stuart papers were originally in the possession of Stuart's widow and were passed down through the family before being donated to VMI.\u003c/p\u003e"],"custodhist_heading_ssm":["Provenance"],"custodhist_tesim":["The William D. Stuart papers were originally in the possession of Stuart's widow and were passed down through the family before being donated to VMI."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eVirginia Military Institute\u003cbr\u003e\nDecember 3 1850\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMy dear sir\u003cbr\u003e\nHaving understood that Mr. W. D. Stuart is an applicant for a commission in the U.S. Army I take the liberty of addressing you a private note on his behalf. I do this in preference to the formal course of a recommendation, because you will be better able to appreciate what I may\nsay in the unreserved mode in which I write.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYou are aware that Mr. S. entered this Institution as a cadet in July 1847. After completing the whole course of studies, he was graduated in July last with great credit. You will see by the accompanying merit roll that in all his classes he maintained a most respectable standing, while in Geology, Artillery, and Infantry Tactics, he was No. 1. And in Military Engineering 3rd.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to these facts, he was a commissioned officer of the Corps of Cadets and gave great satisfaction to us in the manner in which he discharged his duties.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSo high was our estimate of his talents as a scholar and qualifications as an officer, that on a vacancy in our Corps of Instructors occurring in July, he was selected as an assistant Professor of Math. And assistant Instructor of Tactics and has been discharging these duties with great credit up to the present time.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFrom my personal knowledge of the qualifications of an officer of the Army, I know that there are few young men who enter the Service from West Point who are better qualified than Stuart and I have no doubt he will make as fine an officer as can be selected for the Infantry arm of\nthe Service.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYou know his moral qualifications as well as I do. If any doubt had existed on this point, he would never have been appointed an officer in this Institution.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ehope it will be the pleasure of the President to confer an appointment upon Mr. Stuart.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis Institution has been laboring now for 11 years in building up its Military reputation and we should like to have an opportunity of comparing our graduates with those from West Point.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWith cordial regards to Mrs. S.\u003cbr\u003e\nI am very truly your friend\u003cbr\u003e\nFrancis H. Smith\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHon. A. H. H. Stuart\nWashington City\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVa. Military Institute\u003cbr\u003e\nDec 10th 1850\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMr. W.D. Stuart desires to obtain a commision in the U.S. Army. His present post, that of Asst. Instructor of Tactics in the Va. Military Institute is evidence of his peculiar fitness for command. His acquirements at the Insititute of which he is a graduate, embracing Engineering, Artillery, and Infantry Tactics, with Mathematics and the Natural Sciences were such as to induce the authorities of the Institute to select him from her many graduates for the very responsible situation he now holds, a situation which requires judgement, firmness and decision of Character- all of which Mr. Stuart possesses in a high degree. His uniformily gentlemanly\ndeportment has endeared him to his fellow officers and will make him grace the position he seeks.\u003cbr\u003e\nThomas. H. Williamson\u003cbr\u003e\nProf. Engr. \u0026amp; Arch.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVMI\u003cbr\u003e\nDecember 10, 1850\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eW. Stuart was appointed immediately after his graduation Assistant Instructor of Tactics in the Virginia Military Institute. This is the highest and most indubitable testimony of the estimate of his military qualifications, by those who know him best. The course of military instruction and discipline at the Institute conforms strictly to that of the U.S.A. at West Point and is conducted by graduates of the latter Institution. If from a jealous regard to the character of the Army, the\nGovernment ordinarily restricts its commissions to the graduates of West Point, the same principle might well incline it, in its exceptional appointment of citizens, to feel a preference for those, who like Mr. Stuart, have at a State Institution, thoroughly prepared themselves for the Military Profession.\u003cbr\u003e\nJohn T.L. Preston\u003cbr\u003e\nProf. V.M.I\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEngineers Office\u003cbr\u003e\nMemphis and Charleston Railroad\u003cbr\u003e\nHuntsville\u003cbr\u003e\nNovember 22d 1854\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMy Dear Stuart,\u003cbr\u003e\nI have just stolen away from my wife and have run up to my office with the determination of writing you. I was not a little surprised to learn through your letter that you had written me. Your letter, which reached me about ten days ago was the only one I have received from you since your marriage. I wrote you at that particularly interesting time a note of congratulations, as well as a letter, just before your mariage, but have received no letter in return. Now my good fellow I have no doubt but what you think that you wrote me, but as for my part I am inclined to think that you did not. I am sure I should not think it strange if you had not for you are a newly married man, and as a matter of course can not afford to give your friends many thoughts, at least for a while.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIt is really refreshing, my old friend to hear from you and especially to know that you are a married man and in the full enjoyment of the pleasures that attend married love. My wife returned from Virginia about the first of September with much improved health---and my boy is a most magnificent fellow. A look at him might be of some service to you. Don't blush my dear fellow I don't mean any thing.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDabney, what under the sun has become of all of our class mates. You are living in the center of our great union and should be posted up on every thing. I never see the names of any of our class in the papers, nor do I ever correspond with any of them, hence I am utterly ignorant of their movements. I never any thing from Lexington since you left there. Have any of our old acquaintances married off since our days-.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMatters here are still wearing a pleasant and flattering aspect. Our road is moving on finely, and we trust ere many more months pass away, that we will have a large and important portion of our work finished. I wish that we had a good comfortable post to offer you here. We are finishing up so fast that we are reducing the Corps instead of increasing. Still, should you ever make up your mind to embark in the profession, we might look out for a post for you.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYour school I trust will for the present afford you a comfortable competency, and something besides. School teaching, like every thing else has its reverses, its calms and its storms. We can find no profession that is made up entirely of sunshine. We must expect the life of man to harmonize with nature, having its passing clouds and refreshing sunshine in equal turns. I with all my hopeful temperament, have had my moments of gloom and anxiety, but with a fond wife, no less hopeful than myself, to cheer me, I have faced all and am now full of bright anticipation. Nor does this come about from any fortune, or particular promises, but all from a conviction that there is room for everyone in this world and plenty for everyone to do, and that industry when ever it is found is in the course of time rewarded. This is an unusually difficult time with almost everyone. There seems to be a weariness in the money market in every quarter. Men experience great difficulty in meeting their general expenses. This state of affairs, I have no doubt has had its influence upon your school, and I feel assured that there will be an improvement after a little while. I hope my dear Stuart, that you will continue to keep me posted up in regard to your movements, for I may find a good offering out South that would please you, and if such should be the case, it would give me inexpressible pleasure to serve you. I will always be on the look out. A new country is better for a young man in any profession. The competition is not so great and pay better. Present me the kindest manner to your good wife and receive the renewed assurance of your old and sincere friend and classmate.\u003cbr\u003e\nGabe Jordan Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichmond, Va.\u003cbr\u003e\nApril 15th 1861\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGov. Letcher\u003cbr\u003e\nDear Sir,\u003cbr\u003e\nI enclose recommendations from the Authorities of the Va. Military Institute to the Secretary of War under Mr. Fillmore for an appointment in the U.S. Army at that time. I submit them to you in my own behalf for an appointment under the State of Va. in the event of her secession from\nthe present Federal Government. I desire an appointment to any position in which my services may be required the most valuable, either in the active duties of the field or otherwise.\u003cbr\u003e\nVery respectfully yours,\u003cbr\u003e\nWm. D. Stuart\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHead Qrs Va Forces\u003cbr\u003e\nRichmond Va. May 20 1861\u003cbr\u003e\nSpecial Orders\u003cbr\u003e\nNo 82\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCol. T.P. August, Lt. Col. W.D. Stuart, and Major Thos. G. Peyton, Virginia Vols, are assigned to duty with the troops at the \"Camp of Instruction\" and will report without delay to Col. William Gilham commanding that post.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy order of Maj. Genl Lee\u003cbr\u003e\nR. Garnett\u003cbr\u003e\nAdjt Genl.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichmond\u003cbr\u003e\nMay 21st 1861\u003cbr\u003e\nCapt. W. D. Stuart\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDear Sir,\u003cbr\u003e\nAt a meeting of the Richmond City Guard held this evening, the undersigned were appointed a Committee to express to you the unfeigned regret of the Company on having read your resignation, and to tender you the sincere thanks of the Company for the faithfulness and efficiency with which you have discharged the duties of Commanding Officer.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWhile the Company deplores deeply the necessity which separates you from us, we rejoice to know that our Beloved State will have the benefit of your valuable services.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePermit us personally and on behalf of the Company to tender you our best wishes for your future happiness and prosperity.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eVery truly your friends,\u003cbr\u003e\nDavis N. Walker\u003cbr\u003e\nSamuel M. Bailey\u003cbr\u003e\nJames E. Burress\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnofficial\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCamp of Instruction\u003cbr\u003e\nMay 23rd\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMy dear Col.\u003cbr\u003e\nWhen three field officers were assigned to duty here, I was so green as to put each in command of a Regt., having no other officers who knew any thing about organizing a Regt. This arrangement does not seem to have suited Col. August, who has been complaining to the powers that be, and I have received an order directing me to assign them all to one Regt--that of Col. August of course. Col. Stuart is one of them, and is totally unprepared for the field; he will make application to Gen. Fauntleroy this evening for a few days, please see what you can do for him. Gen. F. though may not have him in his Divn, if so he will have to go to Col. Magruder of course.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYours sincerely\u003cbr\u003e\nW. Gilham\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichmond\u003cbr\u003e\nJuly 5th 1861\u003cbr\u003e\nLt. Col. Stewart [Stuart]\u003cbr\u003e\n3rd Regt. Va. Vols.\u003cbr\u003e\nYorktown\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDear Sir,\u003cbr\u003e\nSometime, about the latter part of May or the commencement of June your lady Mrs. Stewart in company with Mrs. Lucy Wharton called at my Office in order to procure material for the purpose of making you a tent as they were unable to get a tent allready made: and stated that you were without one. Under these circumstances, I furnished the necessary material with the consent of Col. Heth the then Q.M. General who instructed me to take your receipt for one tent. The receipt has been delayed from various causes, partly because I did not know the address of Mrs. Stewart or yourself. Should you receive this letter I would be much obliged that you sign and return me the enclosed receipt; by your prompt attention to wit you will much oblige.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYours very respectfully,\u003cbr\u003e\nMaury Garland\u003cbr\u003e\nCapt. and Asst. Q. M.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHead Quarters Williamsburg\u003cbr\u003e\nJuly 25th 1861\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCol.,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe General having understood that Colonel August is unwell. He directs that you will urge with the greatest vigor the work on the Fortification at King's Mill. In order to do this you will have but one drill a day in the evening. The working hours will be from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. and from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. The guns to place in the various works are now on the way here and it is specially desired to have the works ready for them at the earliest moment.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI am sir very respectfully\u003cbr\u003e\nYour obedient servant\u003cbr\u003e\nG. B. Cosby\u003cbr\u003e\nMaj. and AAAG\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdjutant Inspr Genl's Office\u003cbr\u003e\nRichmond\u003cbr\u003e\nSept 17th 1861\u003cbr\u003e\nExtract\u003cbr\u003e\nSpecial Orders\u003cbr\u003e\nNo. 280\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eXI. Lieut Colonel William D. Stuart Virginia Volunteers is promoted to be Colonel and assigned to the Command of the 56th Virginia Regiment just organized at Camp Lee, near this city, andwill report accordingly.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy order of the Secretary of War\u003cbr\u003e\n[Geo. Deas]\u003cbr\u003e\nA.A.G.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCamp Lee\u003cbr\u003e\nNov. 15th 1861\u003cbr\u003e\nCol. George W. Munford\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSir\u003cbr\u003e\nI had the honor receive at the hands of Col. S. Bassett French the Flag of Va. intended for the Regiment I have the honor to command, also the accompanying letter of presentation from you.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAs the commanding officer of the Regt. and its organ upon this occasion, I need not assure you that I received it with pride and satisfaction. Regarding it as the emblem of the honor and purity of our Mother State, hitherto unsullied in Council or War it shall be carefully guarded that it receive no detriment at the hands of the Regiment to which you have confided. I think I can with all safety assure you, and that the Sons of Va., voluntarily of the 56th Va. Regt. will ever be found at their post of duty and that they will never do discredit to the sacred cause in which they have enlisted.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Daughters of Va. whose fair hands have wrought this beautiful emblem of Va.'s honor, will never have cause to blush for shame at the conduct of their brothers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI am very respectfully\u003cbr\u003e\nYour obedient servant\u003cbr\u003e\nWilliam D. Stuart, Col.\u003cbr\u003e\nCommanding 56th Va. Regt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdjt and Insp Genls Office\u003cbr\u003e\nRichmond, Nov 21st 1861\u003cbr\u003e\nExtract\u003cbr\u003e\nSpecial Orders\u003cbr\u003e\nNo 232\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eXI. The 56th Regiment Virginia Volunteers, Col. Stuart Commanding, will proceed without delay, via Wytheville, to Jeffersonville, VA. and report for duty to Brig. Genl. Marshall.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy Command of the Sec. of War\u003cbr\u003e\nJno. Withers\u003cbr\u003e\nAsst. Adjt. Genl.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHead Quarters Brigade\u003cbr\u003e\nPound Gap\u003cbr\u003e\n1 Dec 1861\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCol. Stuart,\u003cbr\u003e\nSir,\u003cbr\u003e\nIn reply to your note reporting your command to me, I direct that you move your regiment forward by Pound Gap towards Prestonburg in Kentucky, as soon as possible after the reception of the order, unless you should receive other directions from Maj. Genl. George B. Crittenden at Knoxville.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI am sir,\u003cbr\u003e\nYour obedient servant,\u003cbr\u003e\nHumphrey Marshall\u003cbr\u003e\nBrig. Genl.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome of the wagoners I hired and started left the teams on the road. I am compelled to go to Abingdon by private conveyance ad will purchase some waggons \u0026amp; c by the way and hire other wagoners.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eW. Gibboney\u003cbr\u003e\nA. Q. M.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransportation Office C.S.A\u003cbr\u003e\nWytheville, Va. December 2nd 1861\u003cbr\u003e\nCol. W. D. Stuart\u003cbr\u003e\nCom. 56th Regt. Va. Vols.\u003cbr\u003e\nAbingdon Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eColonel,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Frt. Agt. of the Va. and Tenn. R. R. has requested me to give him vouchers for the transportation of the stores in the Train which accompanied that containing your Regiment from Wytheville to Abigdon and allso for the baggage of the Regiment.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWill you please inform me whether you have already provided receipt for the transportation and whether the baggage was entitled to transportable from government. I have the honor to be\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eVery Respectfully\u003cbr\u003e\nYour obedient servant\u003cbr\u003e\nA. Meade Smith\u003cbr\u003e\nCapt. \u0026amp; [Acting] QM CSA\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHd. Qts. Knoxville, Tenn\u003cbr\u003e\nDec. 5th 1861\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTo-\u003cbr\u003e\nCol. Stuart\u003cbr\u003e\nCommd. 56th Regt. Va. Vols.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYou will move with your Regiment as soon as transportation can be furnished to you, to Nashville Tenn.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy Command of\u003cbr\u003e\nMaj. Genl. G. B. Crittenden\u003cbr\u003e\nA.S. Cunningham\u003cbr\u003e\nA.A. Genl.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived at: Abingdon Dec 10 1861\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy Telegraph from: Knoxville Dec 10\u003cbr\u003e\nTo: Col. Stuart\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGenl. Johnson orders that your Regiment remain with Genl. Marshall W. H. Carroll\u003cbr\u003e\nBrig. Genl.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived at: Abingdon Dec 11 1861\u003cbr\u003e\nBy Telegraph from: Richmond Dec 11\u003cbr\u003e\nTo: Col. W. D. Stuart\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eProceed with your Regiment to Pound Gap and report to Genl. Marshall. The Quarter Masters Dept. is ordered to furnish transportation.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eS. Cooper\u003cbr\u003e\nA. G.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHeadquarters 1st Brigade\u003cbr\u003e\nArmy of Eastern Ky.\u003cbr\u003e\nCamp near Paintville\u003cbr\u003e\nDec 21st 1861\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSpecial Order\u003cbr\u003e\nNo. 8\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCol. Stuart is directed to move his Regiment from Abingdon immediately with such transportation as can be procured. It is of the first importance to the safety and success of the command on this frontier that the reinforcements destined for the forces already here shall move to the front without delay. Fine opportunities for brilliant successes have been lost for want of their presence ad others are daily passing away. The weather has favored the\nmovement of the troops, but has not been taken at advantage. The General directs that the movement be commenced without further delay and that the passage of the troops over Pound Gap be notified to him by the returning courier.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy order of\u003cbr\u003e\nBrig. Genl. H. Marshall\u003cbr\u003e\nAtt. B. H. Bradley\u003cbr\u003e\nA. Adjt. Genl.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1861 December 22\u003cbr\u003e\nPaintsville, KY 22nd Dec.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCol. Stuart,\u003cbr\u003e\nI send express to you to move your regiment without delay. I am before a force so much superior to me in number, according to the report of reliable scouts, that I can scarcely hope to avoid a collision-- it may be disastrous to us- until you arrive.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIf there are any forces near your route who are disengaged I would like exceedingly to have them assist me now. I am here with a force not amounting to 1500 men fit for duty. I shall struggle to keep off the evil day as long possible for you to arrive.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYours truly \u0026amp; c\u003cbr\u003e\nH. Marshall\u003cbr\u003e\nBrig. Genl.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e[note on back]\u003cbr\u003e\nPress transportation any where you can, if it is not ready, but travel lightly for the roads are deep. H.M.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdj. [\u0026amp;] Inspect. Genl's Office\u003cbr\u003e\nRichmond Dec 24/61\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSir,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Secretary of War directs that you immediately proceed to carry out the instructions referred to in your comn of the 23rd inst. by reporting, with all your effective force, for duty to Brig. General Marshall, making proper provisions for your sick at Abingdon.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eVery Respectfully\u003cbr\u003e\nYour Obd. Servt.\u003cbr\u003e\nR. H. Chilton\u003cbr\u003e\nA. Genl.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLt. Col. Philip P. Slaughter\u003cbr\u003e\nOr/ Commanding Officer\u003cbr\u003e\n56 Reg. Va. Vols.\u003cbr\u003e\nAbingdon , Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbingdon (Va) Dec 27th 1861\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTo-\u003cbr\u003e\nCol. Wm. D Stuart\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDear Sir:\u003cbr\u003e\nSince my arrival I have received orders to go immediately to Pound Gap from both the Sec. of War and Gen. Marshall. The order from Gen. M is both peremptory and urgent, and it is asource of the greatest mortification to me to find that, at so critical a juncture we are totally impotent, and I much fear (\"entre nous\") our reputation may suffer in the mind of the public\nwho cannot be aware of the embarrassing circumstances by which we are surrounded. I think it would be well if you could represent us in our true colors to the War Dept. Genl. M. writes that he is threatened by a superior force and urges our immediate movement which I am unable to comply with, not having more than eight or nine waggons and no horses. At the very earliest moment possible I will move on to Pound Gap with the fragment of the Regt.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFrom what I have learned since writing the above, the opinion prevails in Richmond that the Regt. declined transportation on account of the \"onerous march across the mountains\". You can judge of the correctness of this statement. Such seems to be the prevailing opinion in the War. Dept. Can you do any thing for us? I am in the worst quandary I ever was in my life.\nPlease telegraph me at your earliest convenience.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI think a court of inquiry would be beneficial to us: at all events, it could not injure us.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYours very respectfully\u003cbr\u003e\nP. P. Slaughter\u003cbr\u003e\nFavor of\u003cbr\u003e\nCapt. R. B. Patterson\u003cbr\u003e\nQ.M.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eP. S.\u003cbr\u003e\nI enclose you Genl. Marshall's orders, that you may see how we stand. I retain a copy of them. You will also find enclosed, the order from War Dept. P. P. S.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbingdon Dec. 27th 1861\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTo-\u003cbr\u003e\nBrig. Gen. Marshall\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSir,\u003cbr\u003e\nI am in receipt of your order of the 22nd inst. as well as your Special Order No. 8. It is a source of exceeding regret and much mortification to me, to find myself in so crippled a condition at such a critical junction. Twice since being here I have prepared transportation in accordance with orders, once to join your command, which, when I got ready, I was compelled to decline by an order from Gen. Crittenden \"to go immediately to Nashville and report to Gen. A. S. Johnston. I then went to work to get transportation by rail, to Nashville, which I after some days effected. My men were at the Depot ready to march on the cars, when I received a telegram to remain and go with you; since which time I have not been able to collect the necessary No. of waggons to convey the Regt. in obedience to orders.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Regt. is reduced lower than one half its original size, and is at present in a very debilitated condition. Col. Stuart, by reason of sickness has not been able to take command of the Regt. since leaving Richmond. Maj. Green is absent, all of which combine to place me in a very unenviable position upon the receipt of your orders.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAs to the matter of transportation, I have only eight or ten wagons and no horses, as the Quartermaster informs me.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI shall endeavor to the utmost of my ability to move at the earliest time possible and most sincerely hope I may be able to join you in season to render some assistance in the existing emergency.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis will be handed to you by Capt. T. Smith of the 56th Regt. in whom you can place all confidence.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI did not see your courier or I should have dispatched by him. He left before I could reach the village.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI am sir very respectfully\u003cbr\u003e\nYour obt. Servt.\u003cbr\u003e\nPhilip P. Slaughter\u003cbr\u003e\nLt. Col. Comd. 56th Va. Regt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbigdon, Va. Dec 27th 1861\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDear Colonel,\u003cbr\u003e\n'Tis said and I more than partly believe that we are to move to Marshall's Command per Pound Gap and that in some what of a hurry. Your command is worse off in the matter of sick men than when you left. There are forty men in the Hospital and the number would be greater in there were room. The number of sick men in camp and private houses is hardly to be believed,\nbut I think I am in bounds when I say that if 250 men rank and file are able to march now, 'tis more than I expect. But 'tis hardly friendly to trouble you with such things so I'll only say that we \"what can go\" are going and no mistake. I hear you have some idea of joining us immediately. Don't hurry unless you are really strong enough; for I know your impetuosity of old.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn great haste\u003cbr\u003e\nM. Howard\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdjt and Inspr. Genl's Office\u003cbr\u003e\nRichmond, Jany 2 1862\u003cbr\u003e\nExtract\u003cbr\u003e\nSpecial Order\u003cbr\u003e\nNo. 1\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eColonel Stuart's 56th Regiment Virginia Volunteers is detached from General Humphrey Marshall's Command and will immediately proceed to Bowling Green Kentucky and report to General A.S. Johnston for duty with General Floyds Brigade.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy Command of the Secretary of War\u003cbr\u003e\nJohn Withers\u003cbr\u003e\nAsst. Adjt Genl.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbingdon (Va) Jan. 4th 1862\u003cbr\u003e\nCol. Wm. D. Stuart\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDear Sir,\u003cbr\u003e\nOn yesterday, I received from Captain Patteson the following telegram. \"Col. Stuart says, leave Jacob and his baggage\". The dispatch said nothing of the horse. I was in much doubt about him. Before determining, I mentioned the matter to Dr. Howard, who by the way, has been confined to his bed for a week, \u0026amp; is unable to proceed with the Regt. and intends keeping his horse with him. After reading the telegram, he advised me to leave your horse in care of Jacob. All your baggage, that is, all I imagine was meant, consisting of a horse, saddle \u0026amp; bridle, sword, bed, trunk, field glasses, canteen, etc. I turned over to Mr. Benham, saw them placed together in a room and showed them to Jacob.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSix companies of the Regt. have gone in under command of Capt. Boswell. The others will go tonight. I am much afraid we may be detained somewhat at Union, the first burnt bridge; but our great object is to get away as fast as possible from the road to Pound Gap. I will send you a copy of the order from the Sec of War.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eJacob, during our troubles has been invaluable to me; indeed, while attending to my immensible duties, I think I would have starved but for his providing hand \u0026amp; it is almost certain I would have lost everything I have, but for his care. I envy you very much the possession of so valuable \u0026amp; reliable a servant.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI told him he would either keep his horse in the Quartermaster's stables or at Mr. Benham's. In case I misinterpreted your wishes concerning him, and you should desire him to be sent on, write to Dr. Howard, who expects to carry his own, \u0026amp; it will be as easy to carry two as one. Should you adopt this suggestion, you had better write immediately.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eJacob desires me to say he is tolerable well and would like to hear from you as soon as convenient to know what course he is to pursue.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMaj. Green has not returned as yet. Two of Capt. Richardson's men deserted last night. I think we have some thirty sick in the hospital.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHoping this may find you rapidly recovering and that you are able to rejoin us speedily.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI am sir, very respectfully\u003cbr\u003e\nP. P. Slaughter\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e[on back]\nCopy of Order from Sec. Of War\u003cbr\u003e\nExtract\u003cbr\u003e\nAdj. \u0026amp; Inspect. Genl's Office\u003cbr\u003e\nRichmond Jan 2th 1862\u003cbr\u003e\nSpecial Order\u003cbr\u003e\nNo. 1:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eXV. Colonel Stuart's 56th Regt. Virginia Volunteers, is detached from General Humphrey Marshall's Command and will immediately proceed to Bowling Green, Kentucky and report to General A. S. Johnston for duty with General Floyd's Brigade.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy Command of the Secretary of War\u003cbr\u003e\nJno. Withers\u003cbr\u003e\nAsst. Adjt. Genl. Col. 56th Va. Vols.\u003cbr\u003e\nTo\u003cbr\u003e\nCommanding Officer C. S. Forces\u003cbr\u003e\nAbingdon Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichmond, Va.\u003cbr\u003e\nFeb 5th 62\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGenl. Cooper,\u003cbr\u003e\nSir,\u003cbr\u003e\nI beg leave to submit he following statement to the Department in refutation of the report, circulated I understand at the Head Qrs. by the Brigade Quartermaster of Genl. Humphrey Marshall's, to the effect that I had refused transportation for my command, from Abingdon to Prestonsburg the point to which I was ordered by Genl. Marshall. The enclosed letter written at\nthe time to the Department has bearing upon this point. The following is a literal copy of the order from Genl. Marshall by my messenger Capt. Taylor sent to inquire to which point I should march.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHead Quarters Brigade\u003cbr\u003e\nPound Gap 1 Dec 1861\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCol. Stuart,\u003cbr\u003e\nSir,\u003cbr\u003e\nIn reply to your note reporting your command to me, I direct that you move your regiment forward by Pound Gap towards Prestonsburg in Kentucky, as soon as possible after the reception of this order, unless you should receive directions from Major Genl. George B. Crittenden at Knoxville.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI am sir\u003cbr\u003e\nYour Obt. Servt.\u003cbr\u003e\nHumphrey Marshall\u003cbr\u003e\nBrig. Genl.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis order was received late at night and a verbal message by Capt. Taylor that a messenger had been sent to Genl. Crittenden to inform him of my presence in Abingdon and that he should write order me to join him if necessary. Not hearing from Genl. Crittenden in forty-eight hours after, I sent Lieut. Col. Slaughter to Knoxville to find out from him at once whether I should expect orders from him and he replied by Telegraph through Capt. Cunningham his A. A. Genl.ordering me to Nashville \u0026amp; Col. Slaughter returned the following day bringing the following order by which this is an exact copy.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHd. Qrs. Knoxville Tenn.\u003cbr\u003e\nDec. 5th 1861\u003cbr\u003e\nTo Col Stuart\u003cbr\u003e\nCommand. 56th Regt. Va. Vols.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSir,\u003cbr\u003e\nYou will move with your Regiment as soon as transportation can be furnished to Nashville, Tenn.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy Command of\u003cbr\u003e\nMaj. Genl. G. B. Crittenden\u003cbr\u003e\nS. Cunningham A.Genl.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe interval between the reception of these orders was employed by me busily in attempting to procure transportation and finding no Quarter Master at Abingdon, I sent to Wytheville for Capt. Gibboney A. Q. M. at that point to report at Abingdon and assist me. My own QuarterMaster was without funds for that purpose. Capt. Gibboney arrived bringing with him waggons purchased on the road and by the time of the reception of the order from Genl. Crittenden, I had enough transportation on hand, by leaving some articles behind to enable me to reach Prestonsburg. Of course after the order of Genl. Crittenden, I had no use for the waggons and ordered them immediately to be loaded with supplies of ordnance and other belongings to Genl. Marshall and forwarded to him\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eImmediately upon the receipt of Genl. Crittenden's order, so uncertain was telegraphic communication, I sent my Quarter Master to Lynchburg to arrange for transportation by rail to Nashville and had already procured it and would have been on the way to Nashville but for the bursting of one of the [flues] of the engines, when I received the following order by Telegraph\nreceived in Abingdon Dec 10th about dark.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eKnoxville Dec 10th\u003cbr\u003e\nTo Col. Stuart,\nGenl. A . S. Johnston orders that your Regiment remain with Genl. Marshall.\u003cbr\u003e\nW. H. Carroll\u003cbr\u003e\nBrig. Genl.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eUpon the reception of this order I immediately telegraphed the Department to know whose orders I should obey? In the meantime the waggons I had secured for my Regiment were on the way to Pound Gap and I was thus compelled to\ncommence again to prepare transportation for that trip.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI had been quite unwell with jaundice ad the Surgeon finding that we would be compelled to go to Pound Gap told me that he would not answer for the consequences should I undertake to go and advised my return to Richmond, where I have been confined to my room with a severe attack of Rheumatism until within the last ten days. I left the Regiment under command of Lt. Col. Slaughter and I know that the delay in proceeding to join Genl. Marshall arose from no indisposition on his part to execute the orders, but from an absolute inability to procure the necessary transportation.\nThere can be found in the service no officer more active, intelligent and competent to the discharge of the duties of his position. We are anxious if there is the slightest doubt remaining on the mind of the Honl. Sec. as to the want of proper activity on the part of the officer of the Regiment to move forward, that he will order a Court of Inquiry that the matter may be thoroughly sifted.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI have the honor to be\u003cbr\u003e\nYour obt. servt.\u003cbr\u003e\nWm. D. Stuart, Col.\u003cbr\u003e\n56th Va. Regt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenl. Hospital\u003cbr\u003e\nRichmd. March 4 1862\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWm. T Cross, Private Co. E. 56 Reg. Va. Vols. has been in this hospital since 1 Nov 1861 with Secondary Syphilis. He has now Syphilitic Rheumatism \u0026amp; as his turn of enlistment will expire in June, I recommend his discharge from the service.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI. Beu. Gibson\u003cbr\u003e\nSurg. P. A. C. S.\u003cbr\u003e\nRichmond Genl. Hospital\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOfficial business\u003cbr\u003e\nWm. D. Stuart\u003cbr\u003e\nCol: 56 Regt.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSir,\u003cbr\u003e\nEnclosed please find Certificate of disability for Private W. T. Cross. It must be approved by the Capt. of his Co. \u0026amp; Col. of the Reg. \u0026amp; returned to me- at least this is the usual form.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIf there is a prospect of obtaining his discharge at once, I would prefer his remaining in the Hospital until it is received here.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eVery resp.\u003cbr\u003e\nI. B. Gibson\u003cbr\u003e\nSurg. P. A. C. S.\u003cbr\u003e\nRichmd Genl. Hospital\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichmond Arsenal\u003cbr\u003e\nMarch 8th 1862\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMy Dear Colonel,\u003cbr\u003e\nThis will be handed you by my friend Col. W. D Stuart 56 Va. Vols. who is about joining his Regiment, at present attached to your Department. Col. Stuart has by severe sickness been detained from following a career so nobly begun at Bethel.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHis health is now sufficiently restored to justify his joining his command. I bespeak for him your kind consideration in advance, because having known him intimately from boyhood to the present time, I declare him to be a \"gentleman and a soldier\", as Lear was a king- \"every inch\".\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYour Friend\u003cbr\u003e\nBriscoe G. Baldwin\u003cbr\u003e\nCapt. Arty. P. [A?]\u003cbr\u003e\nCol. W. W. Mackall\u003cbr\u003e\nA. A. Genl.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHead Quarters Floyd's Division\u003cbr\u003e\nChattanooga, Mar 17th 1862\u003cbr\u003e\nGeneral Order\u003cbr\u003e\nNo. 246\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe reenlisted men of this command are entitled to a furlough of sixty days at home, but in case of a collision with the enemy at Knoxville this will be suspended for one week.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy order\u003cbr\u003e\nBrig. Gen. Floyd\u003cbr\u003e\n[C. Derrick]\u003cbr\u003e\nA.A. Gen.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOfficial\u003cbr\u003e\n[Mr]Robin Terry\u003cbr\u003e\nA.A. A Gen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHeadquarters Floyd's Division\u003cbr\u003e\nCamp [? Childress] Mar 17 1862\u003cbr\u003e\nGeneral Orders\u003cbr\u003e\nNo. 27\u003cbr\u003e\nExtract\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe entire command will move tomorrow morning on the cars in the following order. 1st Headquarters, 2d Artillery, 3d. 1st Brigade, 4th 2d Brigade.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe 1st Brigade will load its baggage on the cars at 9 o'clock in the [trn]-yard just across the bridge arranging so that their baggage or wagons will not be in the way of Head Qrs.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy order Brig. Gen. Floyd\u003cbr\u003e\nPeter Otey\u003cbr\u003e\nA.A. Gen\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOfficial\u003cbr\u003e\nMr. Robbin Terry\u003cbr\u003e\nA.A. A Gen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHead Qrs Floyd Division\u003cbr\u003e\nKnoxville, March 19th/62\u003cbr\u003e\nSpecial Orders\u003cbr\u003e\nNo--\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHaving been relieved from my command I hereby turn over the troops under me to the command of Col. Maney commanding forces at Knoxville Tennessee. The commanding officers of Regts will report for duty at once to Col. Maney\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy order Brigdr Gen. Floyd\u003cbr\u003e\nPeter Otey\u003cbr\u003e\nA.A.G.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Field Officers and officers commanding regiments will report at these HdQrs as soon as practicable. The General desires to introduce these gentlemen to the commanding officer Col. Maney.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy direction\u003cbr\u003e\nBrigdr Gen. Floyd\u003cbr\u003e\nPeter Otey\u003cbr\u003e\nA.A.G.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHead Quarters Knoxville\u003cbr\u003e\nMarch 19th 1862\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCol. Stuart\u003cbr\u003e\nCommnd. 56th Va. Regt.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYou will hold your Regt. ready to move at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Send to these Headquarters by 8 ½O'clock tomorrow morning a report of the strength of your command for duty.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGeo. Maury\u003cbr\u003e\nCol. Comdg. at Knoxville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHd. Quarters Knoxville\u003cbr\u003e\n20th March 1862\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eColonel\u003cbr\u003e\nW. D. Stuart\u003cbr\u003e\n56 Va. Regiment\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYou are hereby directed to take command of all the forces here, formerly of Genl. Floyd's command in the movement towards Jacksboro. Capt. B. W. Snyder Qr. Master will report to you as Qr. Master for your command. He will be furnished with twelve 4 horse wagons for transportation of your command. If this transportation is more than sufficient for the tents, cooking utensils and ammunition necessary for your command you will please direct your commissary, whom you may select from your command, to load the unappropriated wagons with Flour and Bacon for which he will make requisition on the post commissary at this place.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRespectfully,\u003cbr\u003e\nGeo. Maney\u003cbr\u003e\nCol. Commanding\u003cbr\u003e\nForces at Knoxville\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHd Qrs Knoxville Mch 20th/62\u003cbr\u003e\nSpecial Order\u003cbr\u003e\nNo--\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCol. Stuart will move with his command tomorrow morning at 6 o'clk on the road to Clinton. You will have rations for one day cooked tonight.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy comd of\u003cbr\u003e\nCol. George Maney Comdg Post\u003cbr\u003e\nR.B. Snowden Adjt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHead Qrs Knoxville, March 21st 1862\u003cbr\u003e\nSpecial Order No-\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCol Stuart\u003cbr\u003e\nYou will hold your command, composed of the 36th, 50th, 51st and 56th Regts in readiness to move at 4 o'clk this afternoon towards Jacksboro.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCol. George Maney Comdg Post\u003cbr\u003e\nR.B. Snowden Adj't.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCol. Stuart\u003cbr\u003e\nI am instructed by Col. Maney to say you will not put your command on the march until further orders. You are however instructed to hold it ready to move at a moment's notice.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eR. B. Snowden Adjt.\u003cbr\u003e\nKnoxville March 21st 1862\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHd. Quarters Knoxville\u003cbr\u003e\nMarch 21st 1862\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCol. Stuart\u003cbr\u003e\nCommand. of Floyd Brigade\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYour order to march toward Clinton is revoked. I desire to see you at my Hd. Quarters in person at first convenient moment to regard to encamping your command here.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eVery Respectfully\u003cbr\u003e\nGeo. Maney Col.\u003cbr\u003e\nCommnd. At Knoxville\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLebanon, 31st March 1862\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCol. Stuart,\u003cbr\u003e\nOf so much of your order of the 28th as proposes the formation of a camp near Abingdon by the unfurloughed officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates of \"Floyd's Brigade\", I shall express no opinion at this time. I presume your halt at Abingdon, for instructions from Richmond, was in pursuance of your duty under the direction of Major General Smith. I am glad he has force to spare.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe others parts of your order I cheerfully approve and will sustain. I know of no vice so fatal to our soldiery as intemperance; and, independent of the loss of many genial fellows to the cause in which our swords are drawn, their fall is the gain of the meanest and the most heartless men in community. The vigor of authority shall not be wanting on my part to sustain every effort to limit the pernicious vice.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI enclose an Order, which please hand to Maj. Fisher that he may have a few struck off and sent after such of my men as have left Abingdon.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYour vindicatory note has been successful I imagine in proving that you did not delay marching last winter intentionally, but the failure to join me was a great misfortune to this command.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI am ready however to look forward and not backwards, and hope our acquaintance may be as agreeable in its continuance as it has been awkward in its beginning.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYours Respectfully,\u003cbr\u003e\nH. Marshall\u003cbr\u003e\nBrig. Genl. Comd.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApr 1st 1862\u003cbr\u003e\nCol. Stuart\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDear Sir,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe bearer of this note Mr. Hanshew is the father of the soldier in the 50th Regt. The young man is at present in hospital and has been quite a sufferer. He was sick in the autumn and before fairly recovered was taken to the west. He was subjected to all the exposure and hardships at Ft. Donelson where he was frost bitten in the trenches. The retreat and long march have proved too much for him and he is really quite worn out. His father wishes to take\nhim home for a few weeks if possible to [illegible] him \u0026amp; I think it important for the young man to go. I know the father well, he is worthy of trust and is a man of excellent character.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI am sir very truly yours\u003cbr\u003e\nJohn B. Floyd\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConfederate States of America\u003cbr\u003e\nTREASURY DEPARTMENT\u003cbr\u003e\nFIRST AUDITOR'S OFFICE\u003cbr\u003e\nApr. 8th 1862\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDear Mr. Stuart,\u003cbr\u003e\nI think I shall die if I don't manage to get with the Army in some capacity or other, \u0026amp; as the circumstances of my family do not admit of my going as a private, I must try to obtain some position which will pay. I have not the presumption to ask for a commission in the Infantry or Artillery, where a knowledge of military tactics is essential, but as all the appointments are not made in the Engineers Corps \u0026amp; for that a knowledge of Mathematics more than anything else is required, I have thought that I might possibly by some study in the meanwhile fit myself for a position in the Engineers. I would not myself have thought such to be the case, but for the assurance of a friend, who is in the Corps \u0026amp; and after considerable experience says that I am fully capable of filling such a position creditably. The object of my writing this letter therefore is to request that you will give me a testimonial to be presented to the Sec. of War, who would doubtless be influenced by what you say. Possibly with that \u0026amp; what I may get old Bledsoe, the Asst. Sec. to say for me, I may obtain a Lieutenancy in the Engineers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIf Frank had been successful I would not myself apply, but I suppose his application is pretty securely pigeon holed \u0026amp; he will never hear from it, though Tom Harris is now in the city \u0026amp; a member of the Military Committee of Congress.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI saw Aunt F. last night and she and the children are in good spirits, looking forward to visiting you in Abingdon, in accordance with your letter of recent date. Aunt F. was glad to hear of your being so well \u0026amp; comfortably fixed \u0026amp; perhaps her cheerfulness is only the reflection from your good spirits, as she learns from your letters \u0026amp; others who have seen you.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMa and the children are pleasantly fixed in Danville \u0026amp; are all very well: Frank was at Orange C. H. when I heard from him, though there is a rumor that his division went down to reinforce Magurder. The sky is brightening. I have not time to write more at present. Hoping to hear from you soon, I remain yours affectionately.\u003cbr\u003e\nW.R. Abbott\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbingdon 20th April 1862\u003cbr\u003e\nCol. Stuart\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDear Sir,\u003cbr\u003e\nMrs. Saunders, the bearer of this is the mother of the boy who is applying for a discharge on the score of minority. I sent you the certificate, \u0026amp; c some days ago. I have no doubt of his being under age. She wants to know the conditions of his application. May I ask you to let her know it?\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWith the highest respect\u003cbr\u003e\nYour obd. Servt.\u003cbr\u003e\nJohn B. Floyd\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConfederate States of America\u003cbr\u003e\nWAR DEPARTMENT\u003cbr\u003e\nEngineer's Bureau\u003cbr\u003e\nRichmond, Va. 30 April 1862\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGenl. G. W. Randolph\u003cbr\u003e\nSecretary of War\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSir,\u003cbr\u003e\nI have had the pleasure of knowing Col. W. D. Stuart for many years. At Lexington where we were cadets together, his peculiar qualifications as a soldier and tactician, on graduating, led to his immediate appointment as assistant instructor of infantry and artillery tactics, a position\nwhich he held with much credit for three years. Since the commencement of the war he has been constantly engaged on active service, first on the Peninsula and afterwards in the West. In the first locality I had the pleasure of again meeting him and heard him uniformly spoken of as a gallant, efficient, and accomplished officer.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn these days of uncertain tenure of office, your endorsement of the substance of this letter would probably be of great service to him, especially as his standing on the Peninsula and conduct in the Battle of Bethel are personally known to you.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWith great respect, your obedient servant,\u003cbr\u003e\nA. L. Rives\u003cbr\u003e\nActing Chf. Eng. Bu.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWar Department\u003cbr\u003e\nApril 30th 1862\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI take great pleasure in bearing the testimony to the gallantry and conduct of Col. Stuart at the Battle of Bethel of which I was an eye witness, and to his efficiency as an officer and his deportment as a gentleman. He is an educated soldier and I should be sorry for the Country to lose his services.\u003cbr\u003e\nGeo. W. Randolph\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCamp near Winchester, Va.\u003cbr\u003e\nOct 26 1862\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMy dear Colonel:\u003cbr\u003e\nI have rec'd your report of the battle of \"South Mountain\" and with it your very kind note.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI can truly assure you I was much gratified with the expressions of regard and esteem you therein expressed towards me. My brief association with you was among the most pleasant I have formed during the war and I sincerely trust it may be renewed at no distant time, under such auspices that we may be able to cultivate a still closer intimacy. With many prayers for you safety and happiness I remain truly your friend\u003cbr\u003e\nR. B. Garnett\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProvost Marshal's Office\u003cbr\u003e\nLynchburg, Va.\u003cbr\u003e\nOct 30th 1862\u003cbr\u003e\nCol. W. D. Stuart\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDear Sir,\u003cbr\u003e\nI received this morning a letter from one of the 56th Va. Regt. informing me that \"you \u0026amp; Maj. Green intended to write to the War Department and endeavor if possible to have me relieved of duty here and ordered to return to Regt.\" I at first doubted its authenticity, but seeing it was from a semi-official source I necessarily attached some importance to it.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI was astonished to hear that you contemplated such a thing as it would undoubtedly place me in a false light before the Department. I presumed you had received official notification of my appointment here.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI have always thought you were magnanimous enough not only to be willing for any officer of your Regt. to obtain promotion and a better position, but would aid him if possible in doing so.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI informed you in three letters before that I applied in Sept. last to Q. M. for transportation to Regt. and applying the same day to Adjt. Gen. Cooper in person to ascertain the point to go to, was directed by him to report to Maj. Gen. Smith for duty. By whom I was sent to Brig. Gen. Winder who ordered me to take charge of the C. S. Military Prison. I remained there about three weeks and discharged the duties satisfactorily to my commissioning officer and was on the 21st Oct. appointed \"Provost Marshal\" of this city with written orders from Maj. Gen. G. W. Smith, a copy of which I send you.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eEach position was unsolicited and unexpected by me; but at the same time agreeable ad satisfactory; because the \"posts\" I was assigned were not only easier and higher than the Capt. of Infantry, but also horses and servants furnished me, and paid $180 per month. The pay however is no consideration with me. The chances of promotion are still greater in my present position.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI will also state to you, that is I preferred it, I am legally exempt from military duty by the recent \"exemption act\" passed by both \"Houses of Congress\" and approved by the President. First I have a plantation with over 40 negroes, and on it \"no white male adult not liable to military duty.\" Second I have a large manufacturing mill and my superintendence is necessary for its successful operation. For either 1st or 2nd reasons I am exempt by \"Act of Congress\".\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBut notwithstanding pecuniary losses I am willing to remain in the army, provided my services will accomplish anything in the cause we are engaged.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI hope this will be satisfactory to you. I fear you did not receive my former letters making substantially the same statements as above; and I feel a conscientious sense of duty, in justice to myself to write to you again\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe appointment here was somewhat complimentary to me and I have intimations already of a higher and more responsible position being assigned me.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI would be glad if you would answer this.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eVery respectfully\u003cbr\u003e\nYour obt. Servant\u003cbr\u003e\nThomas D. Jeffress\u003cbr\u003e\nCapt. and Provost Marshall of Lynchburg\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eP.S. I understand that only 8 or 10 efficient men of Co. \"G\" are with the Regt. and only about 22 or 23 in all on roll. I left several in Richmond at Hospital who will probably never recover sufficiently to return to duty.\u003cbr\u003e\nT. D. J.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18th Va. Regt.\u003cbr\u003e\nNov. 26th 1862\u003cbr\u003e\nCol. W. D. Stuart\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCol.,\u003cbr\u003e\nIn reply to your note rec'd some time since asking of the \"mention made\" of Capt. T. D. Jeffress \"upon\" a report of one of the Richmond battles forwarded by myself to Brigade Hd. Qrs., I have to say that Capt. Jeffress made out the report of the battle himself, he being the Senr. Officer present who was in the fight. When the report was handed to me Lt. Chaffin Actg. Adjt. told me that the officers of the Regt. desired that I should make mention of the good conduct of Capt. Jeffress in battle, as the Capt. from motives of delicacy would of course say nothing of himself. I endorsed upon the report that I was not in the battle myself, was not in command of the Regiment at the time the events spoken of occurred, but that at the request of others, I would state that Capt. Jeffress deserved \"honorable mention\" for good conduct in battle. I have since learned that Lt. Chaffin was not in the fight himself and I am sorry that I acted upon his suggestion and made the endorsement referred to for the reason that I appeared to discriminate in favor of Capt. Jeffress when in fact I knew nothing of the conduct of any officer in the Regiment in the battle alluded to.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI am Col.\u003cbr\u003e\nVery Respectfully\u003cbr\u003e\nGeo. C. Cabell, Major\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCamp Near Petersburg\u003cbr\u003e\nof Pickett's Div. Garnett's Brig.\u003cbr\u003e\nMarch 7th 1863\u003cbr\u003e\nGenl. S. A. Cooper\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSir,\u003cbr\u003e\nI respectfully make an application for 25 Conscripts the requisite number to fill the reduced ranks of my Company at its present standard. You will confer a favour by assigning to the ranks of my Company 25 Conscripts,or any number as you, in your judgement may think proper or circumstances may require. You can see by my muster roll that my company only numbers 31 total present or absent, having never received any Conscripts since its entry into\nservice.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMost Respectfully\u003cbr\u003e\nYour obedient Servt.\u003cbr\u003e\nF. W. Nelson\u003cbr\u003e\nLt. Comd. Co. \"A\" 56th Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCamp Near Petersburg, Va.\u003cbr\u003e\nMarch 7th 1863\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI respectfully ask permission to be absent from my duties for a few days for the following reasons. My property has been dwindling away daily since 25th Dec last, for want of my personal attention. My negroes are roaming through the country without a proper home and I will probably lose them all if I cannot attend to the matter immediately. I leave my company in command of the Capt. I have deferred asking leave of absence until now, because of there being only two (2) officers belonging to the company and the comdg. Officer of the Regt. deems it best that the vacancies of 2nd and 2nd jr. Lieuts. should not be filled at present, I presume because of the smallness of the Co. I reenlisted as a private and have never received a furlough or anything in lieu thereof and have never been absent without leave.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eS. D. Cronin 1st Lieut.\u003cbr\u003e\nCo. \"I\" 56th Va. Regt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarch 8th, 1863\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI respectfully ask for a leave of absence for 20 days to visit my home in Mecklenburg Co. Va. having been in the service for 20 months and having never received but four days furlough since the organization of my Regiment. I hope this application will be granted. I was originally a 12 months Volunteer and subsequently reenlisted for the War.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLieut. F. W. Nelson\u003cbr\u003e\nCo. A. 56th Va. Regt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKittrell's Springs\u003cbr\u003e\nJuly 27th 1863\u003cbr\u003e\nCol. Wm. D. Stuart\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDear Sir,\u003cbr\u003e\nI was transferred from General Hospital No. 10 to Black's and White's Hospital, from that place on the recommendation of the Medical Director in Richmond (Dr. Wm. Carrington) I was allowed the privilege of going home and report once in fifteen days in person or through my Physician's certificate. My furlough was extended the other day, 30 days to enable me to visit\nthe Springs for my health. I am improving very rapidly mow and shall be on, as soon as I am able for duty. You have passed though a very fiery ordeal since I left you. I regret being absent from my company in time of battle. I am truly sorry to learn that you are wounded, hope it will not prove serious, and allow me here to indulge the hope that you will be Genl. Garrett's successor. You certainly deserve the place. I am very anxious to hear from my company. I heard indirectly that Lieut. Finley was wounded, whether seriously or not I did not learn. Pickett's Division was very badly cut up. The mortality among officers was unprecedented. I expect to be here at least two weeks longer. I wish to get entirely well before returning. When I return again I hope to be able to stay with you. Direct your letter to \"Lawrenceville. Brunswick Co. Va.\" With my best wishes that you may speedily recover and when I see you again you may be my Brigadier. I subscribe myself your true friend,\u003cbr\u003e\nN. A. Flournoy\u003c/p\u003e"],"odd_heading_ssm":["Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription"],"odd_tesim":["Virginia Military Institute \nDecember 3 1850","My dear sir \nHaving understood that Mr. W. D. Stuart is an applicant for a commission in the U.S. Army I take the liberty of addressing you a private note on his behalf. I do this in preference to the formal course of a recommendation, because you will be better able to appreciate what I may\nsay in the unreserved mode in which I write.","You are aware that Mr. S. entered this Institution as a cadet in July 1847. After completing the whole course of studies, he was graduated in July last with great credit. You will see by the accompanying merit roll that in all his classes he maintained a most respectable standing, while in Geology, Artillery, and Infantry Tactics, he was No. 1. And in Military Engineering 3rd.","In addition to these facts, he was a commissioned officer of the Corps of Cadets and gave great satisfaction to us in the manner in which he discharged his duties.","So high was our estimate of his talents as a scholar and qualifications as an officer, that on a vacancy in our Corps of Instructors occurring in July, he was selected as an assistant Professor of Math. And assistant Instructor of Tactics and has been discharging these duties with great credit up to the present time.","From my personal knowledge of the qualifications of an officer of the Army, I know that there are few young men who enter the Service from West Point who are better qualified than Stuart and I have no doubt he will make as fine an officer as can be selected for the Infantry arm of\nthe Service.","You know his moral qualifications as well as I do. If any doubt had existed on this point, he would never have been appointed an officer in this Institution.","hope it will be the pleasure of the President to confer an appointment upon Mr. Stuart.","This Institution has been laboring now for 11 years in building up its Military reputation and we should like to have an opportunity of comparing our graduates with those from West Point.","With cordial regards to Mrs. S. \nI am very truly your friend \nFrancis H. Smith","Hon. A. H. H. Stuart\nWashington City","Va. Military Institute \nDec 10th 1850","Mr. W.D. Stuart desires to obtain a commision in the U.S. Army. His present post, that of Asst. Instructor of Tactics in the Va. Military Institute is evidence of his peculiar fitness for command. His acquirements at the Insititute of which he is a graduate, embracing Engineering, Artillery, and Infantry Tactics, with Mathematics and the Natural Sciences were such as to induce the authorities of the Institute to select him from her many graduates for the very responsible situation he now holds, a situation which requires judgement, firmness and decision of Character- all of which Mr. Stuart possesses in a high degree. His uniformily gentlemanly\ndeportment has endeared him to his fellow officers and will make him grace the position he seeks. \nThomas. H. Williamson \nProf. Engr. \u0026 Arch.","VMI \nDecember 10, 1850","W. Stuart was appointed immediately after his graduation Assistant Instructor of Tactics in the Virginia Military Institute. This is the highest and most indubitable testimony of the estimate of his military qualifications, by those who know him best. The course of military instruction and discipline at the Institute conforms strictly to that of the U.S.A. at West Point and is conducted by graduates of the latter Institution. If from a jealous regard to the character of the Army, the\nGovernment ordinarily restricts its commissions to the graduates of West Point, the same principle might well incline it, in its exceptional appointment of citizens, to feel a preference for those, who like Mr. Stuart, have at a State Institution, thoroughly prepared themselves for the Military Profession. \nJohn T.L. Preston \nProf. V.M.I","Engineers Office \nMemphis and Charleston Railroad \nHuntsville \nNovember 22d 1854","My Dear Stuart, \nI have just stolen away from my wife and have run up to my office with the determination of writing you. I was not a little surprised to learn through your letter that you had written me. Your letter, which reached me about ten days ago was the only one I have received from you since your marriage. I wrote you at that particularly interesting time a note of congratulations, as well as a letter, just before your mariage, but have received no letter in return. Now my good fellow I have no doubt but what you think that you wrote me, but as for my part I am inclined to think that you did not. I am sure I should not think it strange if you had not for you are a newly married man, and as a matter of course can not afford to give your friends many thoughts, at least for a while.","It is really refreshing, my old friend to hear from you and especially to know that you are a married man and in the full enjoyment of the pleasures that attend married love. My wife returned from Virginia about the first of September with much improved health---and my boy is a most magnificent fellow. A look at him might be of some service to you. Don't blush my dear fellow I don't mean any thing.","Dabney, what under the sun has become of all of our class mates. You are living in the center of our great union and should be posted up on every thing. I never see the names of any of our class in the papers, nor do I ever correspond with any of them, hence I am utterly ignorant of their movements. I never any thing from Lexington since you left there. Have any of our old acquaintances married off since our days-.","Matters here are still wearing a pleasant and flattering aspect. Our road is moving on finely, and we trust ere many more months pass away, that we will have a large and important portion of our work finished. I wish that we had a good comfortable post to offer you here. We are finishing up so fast that we are reducing the Corps instead of increasing. Still, should you ever make up your mind to embark in the profession, we might look out for a post for you.","Your school I trust will for the present afford you a comfortable competency, and something besides. School teaching, like every thing else has its reverses, its calms and its storms. We can find no profession that is made up entirely of sunshine. We must expect the life of man to harmonize with nature, having its passing clouds and refreshing sunshine in equal turns. I with all my hopeful temperament, have had my moments of gloom and anxiety, but with a fond wife, no less hopeful than myself, to cheer me, I have faced all and am now full of bright anticipation. Nor does this come about from any fortune, or particular promises, but all from a conviction that there is room for everyone in this world and plenty for everyone to do, and that industry when ever it is found is in the course of time rewarded. This is an unusually difficult time with almost everyone. There seems to be a weariness in the money market in every quarter. Men experience great difficulty in meeting their general expenses. This state of affairs, I have no doubt has had its influence upon your school, and I feel assured that there will be an improvement after a little while. I hope my dear Stuart, that you will continue to keep me posted up in regard to your movements, for I may find a good offering out South that would please you, and if such should be the case, it would give me inexpressible pleasure to serve you. I will always be on the look out. A new country is better for a young man in any profession. The competition is not so great and pay better. Present me the kindest manner to your good wife and receive the renewed assurance of your old and sincere friend and classmate. \nGabe Jordan Jr.","Richmond, Va. \nApril 15th 1861","Gov. Letcher \nDear Sir, \nI enclose recommendations from the Authorities of the Va. Military Institute to the Secretary of War under Mr. Fillmore for an appointment in the U.S. Army at that time. I submit them to you in my own behalf for an appointment under the State of Va. in the event of her secession from\nthe present Federal Government. I desire an appointment to any position in which my services may be required the most valuable, either in the active duties of the field or otherwise. \nVery respectfully yours, \nWm. D. Stuart","Head Qrs Va Forces \nRichmond Va. May 20 1861 \nSpecial Orders \nNo 82","Col. T.P. August, Lt. Col. W.D. Stuart, and Major Thos. G. Peyton, Virginia Vols, are assigned to duty with the troops at the \"Camp of Instruction\" and will report without delay to Col. William Gilham commanding that post.","By order of Maj. Genl Lee \nR. Garnett \nAdjt Genl.","Richmond \nMay 21st 1861 \nCapt. W. D. Stuart","Dear Sir, \nAt a meeting of the Richmond City Guard held this evening, the undersigned were appointed a Committee to express to you the unfeigned regret of the Company on having read your resignation, and to tender you the sincere thanks of the Company for the faithfulness and efficiency with which you have discharged the duties of Commanding Officer.","While the Company deplores deeply the necessity which separates you from us, we rejoice to know that our Beloved State will have the benefit of your valuable services.","Permit us personally and on behalf of the Company to tender you our best wishes for your future happiness and prosperity.","Very truly your friends, \nDavis N. Walker \nSamuel M. Bailey \nJames E. Burress","Unofficial","Camp of Instruction \nMay 23rd","My dear Col. \nWhen three field officers were assigned to duty here, I was so green as to put each in command of a Regt., having no other officers who knew any thing about organizing a Regt. This arrangement does not seem to have suited Col. August, who has been complaining to the powers that be, and I have received an order directing me to assign them all to one Regt--that of Col. August of course. Col. Stuart is one of them, and is totally unprepared for the field; he will make application to Gen. Fauntleroy this evening for a few days, please see what you can do for him. Gen. F. though may not have him in his Divn, if so he will have to go to Col. Magruder of course.","Yours sincerely \nW. Gilham","Richmond \nJuly 5th 1861 \nLt. Col. Stewart [Stuart] \n3rd Regt. Va. Vols. \nYorktown","Dear Sir, \nSometime, about the latter part of May or the commencement of June your lady Mrs. Stewart in company with Mrs. Lucy Wharton called at my Office in order to procure material for the purpose of making you a tent as they were unable to get a tent allready made: and stated that you were without one. Under these circumstances, I furnished the necessary material with the consent of Col. Heth the then Q.M. General who instructed me to take your receipt for one tent. The receipt has been delayed from various causes, partly because I did not know the address of Mrs. Stewart or yourself. Should you receive this letter I would be much obliged that you sign and return me the enclosed receipt; by your prompt attention to wit you will much oblige.","Yours very respectfully, \nMaury Garland \nCapt. and Asst. Q. M.","Head Quarters Williamsburg \nJuly 25th 1861","Col., \nThe General having understood that Colonel August is unwell. He directs that you will urge with the greatest vigor the work on the Fortification at King's Mill. In order to do this you will have but one drill a day in the evening. The working hours will be from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. and from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. The guns to place in the various works are now on the way here and it is specially desired to have the works ready for them at the earliest moment.","I am sir very respectfully \nYour obedient servant \nG. B. Cosby \nMaj. and AAAG","Adjutant Inspr Genl's Office \nRichmond \nSept 17th 1861 \nExtract \nSpecial Orders \nNo. 280","XI. Lieut Colonel William D. Stuart Virginia Volunteers is promoted to be Colonel and assigned to the Command of the 56th Virginia Regiment just organized at Camp Lee, near this city, andwill report accordingly.","By order of the Secretary of War \n[Geo. Deas] \nA.A.G.","Camp Lee \nNov. 15th 1861 \nCol. George W. Munford","Sir \nI had the honor receive at the hands of Col. S. Bassett French the Flag of Va. intended for the Regiment I have the honor to command, also the accompanying letter of presentation from you.","As the commanding officer of the Regt. and its organ upon this occasion, I need not assure you that I received it with pride and satisfaction. Regarding it as the emblem of the honor and purity of our Mother State, hitherto unsullied in Council or War it shall be carefully guarded that it receive no detriment at the hands of the Regiment to which you have confided. I think I can with all safety assure you, and that the Sons of Va., voluntarily of the 56th Va. Regt. will ever be found at their post of duty and that they will never do discredit to the sacred cause in which they have enlisted.","The Daughters of Va. whose fair hands have wrought this beautiful emblem of Va.'s honor, will never have cause to blush for shame at the conduct of their brothers.","I am very respectfully \nYour obedient servant \nWilliam D. Stuart, Col. \nCommanding 56th Va. Regt.","Adjt and Insp Genls Office \nRichmond, Nov 21st 1861 \nExtract \nSpecial Orders \nNo 232","XI. The 56th Regiment Virginia Volunteers, Col. Stuart Commanding, will proceed without delay, via Wytheville, to Jeffersonville, VA. and report for duty to Brig. Genl. Marshall.","By Command of the Sec. of War \nJno. Withers \nAsst. Adjt. Genl.","Head Quarters Brigade \nPound Gap \n1 Dec 1861","Col. Stuart, \nSir, \nIn reply to your note reporting your command to me, I direct that you move your regiment forward by Pound Gap towards Prestonburg in Kentucky, as soon as possible after the reception of the order, unless you should receive other directions from Maj. Genl. George B. Crittenden at Knoxville.","I am sir, \nYour obedient servant, \nHumphrey Marshall \nBrig. Genl.","Some of the wagoners I hired and started left the teams on the road. I am compelled to go to Abingdon by private conveyance ad will purchase some waggons \u0026 c by the way and hire other wagoners.","W. Gibboney \nA. Q. M.","Transportation Office C.S.A \nWytheville, Va. December 2nd 1861 \nCol. W. D. Stuart \nCom. 56th Regt. Va. Vols. \nAbingdon Va.","Colonel, \nThe Frt. Agt. of the Va. and Tenn. R. R. has requested me to give him vouchers for the transportation of the stores in the Train which accompanied that containing your Regiment from Wytheville to Abigdon and allso for the baggage of the Regiment.","Will you please inform me whether you have already provided receipt for the transportation and whether the baggage was entitled to transportable from government. I have the honor to be","Very Respectfully \nYour obedient servant \nA. Meade Smith \nCapt. \u0026 [Acting] QM CSA","Hd. Qts. Knoxville, Tenn \nDec. 5th 1861","To- \nCol. Stuart \nCommd. 56th Regt. Va. Vols.","You will move with your Regiment as soon as transportation can be furnished to you, to Nashville Tenn.","By Command of \nMaj. Genl. G. B. Crittenden \nA.S. Cunningham \nA.A. Genl.","Received at: Abingdon Dec 10 1861","By Telegraph from: Knoxville Dec 10 \nTo: Col. Stuart","Genl. Johnson orders that your Regiment remain with Genl. Marshall W. H. Carroll \nBrig. Genl.","Received at: Abingdon Dec 11 1861 \nBy Telegraph from: Richmond Dec 11 \nTo: Col. W. D. Stuart","Proceed with your Regiment to Pound Gap and report to Genl. Marshall. The Quarter Masters Dept. is ordered to furnish transportation.","S. Cooper \nA. G.","Headquarters 1st Brigade \nArmy of Eastern Ky. \nCamp near Paintville \nDec 21st 1861","Special Order \nNo. 8","Col. Stuart is directed to move his Regiment from Abingdon immediately with such transportation as can be procured. It is of the first importance to the safety and success of the command on this frontier that the reinforcements destined for the forces already here shall move to the front without delay. Fine opportunities for brilliant successes have been lost for want of their presence ad others are daily passing away. The weather has favored the\nmovement of the troops, but has not been taken at advantage. The General directs that the movement be commenced without further delay and that the passage of the troops over Pound Gap be notified to him by the returning courier.","By order of \nBrig. Genl. H. Marshall \nAtt. B. H. Bradley \nA. Adjt. Genl.","1861 December 22 \nPaintsville, KY 22nd Dec.","Col. Stuart, \nI send express to you to move your regiment without delay. I am before a force so much superior to me in number, according to the report of reliable scouts, that I can scarcely hope to avoid a collision-- it may be disastrous to us- until you arrive.","If there are any forces near your route who are disengaged I would like exceedingly to have them assist me now. I am here with a force not amounting to 1500 men fit for duty. I shall struggle to keep off the evil day as long possible for you to arrive.","Yours truly \u0026 c \nH. Marshall \nBrig. Genl.","[note on back] \nPress transportation any where you can, if it is not ready, but travel lightly for the roads are deep. H.M.","Adj. [\u0026] Inspect. Genl's Office \nRichmond Dec 24/61","Sir, \nThe Secretary of War directs that you immediately proceed to carry out the instructions referred to in your comn of the 23rd inst. by reporting, with all your effective force, for duty to Brig. General Marshall, making proper provisions for your sick at Abingdon.","Very Respectfully \nYour Obd. Servt. \nR. H. Chilton \nA. Genl.","Lt. Col. Philip P. Slaughter \nOr/ Commanding Officer \n56 Reg. Va. Vols. \nAbingdon , Va.","Abingdon (Va) Dec 27th 1861","To- \nCol. Wm. D Stuart","Dear Sir: \nSince my arrival I have received orders to go immediately to Pound Gap from both the Sec. of War and Gen. Marshall. The order from Gen. M is both peremptory and urgent, and it is asource of the greatest mortification to me to find that, at so critical a juncture we are totally impotent, and I much fear (\"entre nous\") our reputation may suffer in the mind of the public\nwho cannot be aware of the embarrassing circumstances by which we are surrounded. I think it would be well if you could represent us in our true colors to the War Dept. Genl. M. writes that he is threatened by a superior force and urges our immediate movement which I am unable to comply with, not having more than eight or nine waggons and no horses. At the very earliest moment possible I will move on to Pound Gap with the fragment of the Regt.","From what I have learned since writing the above, the opinion prevails in Richmond that the Regt. declined transportation on account of the \"onerous march across the mountains\". You can judge of the correctness of this statement. Such seems to be the prevailing opinion in the War. Dept. Can you do any thing for us? I am in the worst quandary I ever was in my life.\nPlease telegraph me at your earliest convenience.","I think a court of inquiry would be beneficial to us: at all events, it could not injure us.","Yours very respectfully \nP. P. Slaughter \nFavor of \nCapt. R. B. Patterson \nQ.M.","P. S. \nI enclose you Genl. Marshall's orders, that you may see how we stand. I retain a copy of them. You will also find enclosed, the order from War Dept. P. P. S.","Abingdon Dec. 27th 1861","To- \nBrig. Gen. Marshall","Sir, \nI am in receipt of your order of the 22nd inst. as well as your Special Order No. 8. It is a source of exceeding regret and much mortification to me, to find myself in so crippled a condition at such a critical junction. Twice since being here I have prepared transportation in accordance with orders, once to join your command, which, when I got ready, I was compelled to decline by an order from Gen. Crittenden \"to go immediately to Nashville and report to Gen. A. S. Johnston. I then went to work to get transportation by rail, to Nashville, which I after some days effected. My men were at the Depot ready to march on the cars, when I received a telegram to remain and go with you; since which time I have not been able to collect the necessary No. of waggons to convey the Regt. in obedience to orders.","The Regt. is reduced lower than one half its original size, and is at present in a very debilitated condition. Col. Stuart, by reason of sickness has not been able to take command of the Regt. since leaving Richmond. Maj. Green is absent, all of which combine to place me in a very unenviable position upon the receipt of your orders.","As to the matter of transportation, I have only eight or ten wagons and no horses, as the Quartermaster informs me.","I shall endeavor to the utmost of my ability to move at the earliest time possible and most sincerely hope I may be able to join you in season to render some assistance in the existing emergency.","This will be handed to you by Capt. T. Smith of the 56th Regt. in whom you can place all confidence.","I did not see your courier or I should have dispatched by him. He left before I could reach the village.","I am sir very respectfully \nYour obt. Servt. \nPhilip P. Slaughter \nLt. Col. Comd. 56th Va. Regt.","Abigdon, Va. Dec 27th 1861","Dear Colonel, \n'Tis said and I more than partly believe that we are to move to Marshall's Command per Pound Gap and that in some what of a hurry. Your command is worse off in the matter of sick men than when you left. There are forty men in the Hospital and the number would be greater in there were room. The number of sick men in camp and private houses is hardly to be believed,\nbut I think I am in bounds when I say that if 250 men rank and file are able to march now, 'tis more than I expect. But 'tis hardly friendly to trouble you with such things so I'll only say that we \"what can go\" are going and no mistake. I hear you have some idea of joining us immediately. Don't hurry unless you are really strong enough; for I know your impetuosity of old.","In great haste \nM. Howard","Adjt and Inspr. Genl's Office \nRichmond, Jany 2 1862 \nExtract \nSpecial Order \nNo. 1","Colonel Stuart's 56th Regiment Virginia Volunteers is detached from General Humphrey Marshall's Command and will immediately proceed to Bowling Green Kentucky and report to General A.S. Johnston for duty with General Floyds Brigade.","By Command of the Secretary of War \nJohn Withers \nAsst. Adjt Genl.","Abingdon (Va) Jan. 4th 1862 \nCol. Wm. D. Stuart","Dear Sir, \nOn yesterday, I received from Captain Patteson the following telegram. \"Col. Stuart says, leave Jacob and his baggage\". The dispatch said nothing of the horse. I was in much doubt about him. Before determining, I mentioned the matter to Dr. Howard, who by the way, has been confined to his bed for a week, \u0026 is unable to proceed with the Regt. and intends keeping his horse with him. After reading the telegram, he advised me to leave your horse in care of Jacob. All your baggage, that is, all I imagine was meant, consisting of a horse, saddle \u0026 bridle, sword, bed, trunk, field glasses, canteen, etc. I turned over to Mr. Benham, saw them placed together in a room and showed them to Jacob.","Six companies of the Regt. have gone in under command of Capt. Boswell. The others will go tonight. I am much afraid we may be detained somewhat at Union, the first burnt bridge; but our great object is to get away as fast as possible from the road to Pound Gap. I will send you a copy of the order from the Sec of War.","Jacob, during our troubles has been invaluable to me; indeed, while attending to my immensible duties, I think I would have starved but for his providing hand \u0026 it is almost certain I would have lost everything I have, but for his care. I envy you very much the possession of so valuable \u0026 reliable a servant.","I told him he would either keep his horse in the Quartermaster's stables or at Mr. Benham's. In case I misinterpreted your wishes concerning him, and you should desire him to be sent on, write to Dr. Howard, who expects to carry his own, \u0026 it will be as easy to carry two as one. Should you adopt this suggestion, you had better write immediately.","Jacob desires me to say he is tolerable well and would like to hear from you as soon as convenient to know what course he is to pursue.","Maj. Green has not returned as yet. Two of Capt. Richardson's men deserted last night. I think we have some thirty sick in the hospital.","Hoping this may find you rapidly recovering and that you are able to rejoin us speedily.","I am sir, very respectfully \nP. P. Slaughter","[on back]\nCopy of Order from Sec. Of War \nExtract \nAdj. \u0026 Inspect. Genl's Office \nRichmond Jan 2th 1862 \nSpecial Order \nNo. 1:","XV. Colonel Stuart's 56th Regt. Virginia Volunteers, is detached from General Humphrey Marshall's Command and will immediately proceed to Bowling Green, Kentucky and report to General A. S. Johnston for duty with General Floyd's Brigade.","By Command of the Secretary of War \nJno. Withers \nAsst. Adjt. Genl. Col. 56th Va. Vols. \nTo \nCommanding Officer C. S. Forces \nAbingdon Va.","Richmond, Va. \nFeb 5th 62","Genl. Cooper, \nSir, \nI beg leave to submit he following statement to the Department in refutation of the report, circulated I understand at the Head Qrs. by the Brigade Quartermaster of Genl. Humphrey Marshall's, to the effect that I had refused transportation for my command, from Abingdon to Prestonsburg the point to which I was ordered by Genl. Marshall. The enclosed letter written at\nthe time to the Department has bearing upon this point. The following is a literal copy of the order from Genl. Marshall by my messenger Capt. Taylor sent to inquire to which point I should march.","Head Quarters Brigade \nPound Gap 1 Dec 1861","Col. Stuart, \nSir, \nIn reply to your note reporting your command to me, I direct that you move your regiment forward by Pound Gap towards Prestonsburg in Kentucky, as soon as possible after the reception of this order, unless you should receive directions from Major Genl. George B. Crittenden at Knoxville.","I am sir \nYour Obt. Servt. \nHumphrey Marshall \nBrig. Genl.","This order was received late at night and a verbal message by Capt. Taylor that a messenger had been sent to Genl. Crittenden to inform him of my presence in Abingdon and that he should write order me to join him if necessary. Not hearing from Genl. Crittenden in forty-eight hours after, I sent Lieut. Col. Slaughter to Knoxville to find out from him at once whether I should expect orders from him and he replied by Telegraph through Capt. Cunningham his A. A. Genl.ordering me to Nashville \u0026 Col. Slaughter returned the following day bringing the following order by which this is an exact copy.","Hd. Qrs. Knoxville Tenn. \nDec. 5th 1861 \nTo Col Stuart \nCommand. 56th Regt. Va. Vols.","Sir, \nYou will move with your Regiment as soon as transportation can be furnished to Nashville, Tenn.","By Command of \nMaj. Genl. G. B. Crittenden \nS. Cunningham A.Genl.","The interval between the reception of these orders was employed by me busily in attempting to procure transportation and finding no Quarter Master at Abingdon, I sent to Wytheville for Capt. Gibboney A. Q. M. at that point to report at Abingdon and assist me. My own QuarterMaster was without funds for that purpose. Capt. Gibboney arrived bringing with him waggons purchased on the road and by the time of the reception of the order from Genl. Crittenden, I had enough transportation on hand, by leaving some articles behind to enable me to reach Prestonsburg. Of course after the order of Genl. Crittenden, I had no use for the waggons and ordered them immediately to be loaded with supplies of ordnance and other belongings to Genl. Marshall and forwarded to him","Immediately upon the receipt of Genl. Crittenden's order, so uncertain was telegraphic communication, I sent my Quarter Master to Lynchburg to arrange for transportation by rail to Nashville and had already procured it and would have been on the way to Nashville but for the bursting of one of the [flues] of the engines, when I received the following order by Telegraph\nreceived in Abingdon Dec 10th about dark.","Knoxville Dec 10th \nTo Col. Stuart,\nGenl. A . S. Johnston orders that your Regiment remain with Genl. Marshall. \nW. H. Carroll \nBrig. Genl.","Upon the reception of this order I immediately telegraphed the Department to know whose orders I should obey? In the meantime the waggons I had secured for my Regiment were on the way to Pound Gap and I was thus compelled to\ncommence again to prepare transportation for that trip.","I had been quite unwell with jaundice ad the Surgeon finding that we would be compelled to go to Pound Gap told me that he would not answer for the consequences should I undertake to go and advised my return to Richmond, where I have been confined to my room with a severe attack of Rheumatism until within the last ten days. I left the Regiment under command of Lt. Col. Slaughter and I know that the delay in proceeding to join Genl. Marshall arose from no indisposition on his part to execute the orders, but from an absolute inability to procure the necessary transportation.\nThere can be found in the service no officer more active, intelligent and competent to the discharge of the duties of his position. We are anxious if there is the slightest doubt remaining on the mind of the Honl. Sec. as to the want of proper activity on the part of the officer of the Regiment to move forward, that he will order a Court of Inquiry that the matter may be thoroughly sifted.","I have the honor to be \nYour obt. servt. \nWm. D. Stuart, Col. \n56th Va. Regt.","Genl. Hospital \nRichmd. March 4 1862","Wm. T Cross, Private Co. E. 56 Reg. Va. Vols. has been in this hospital since 1 Nov 1861 with Secondary Syphilis. He has now Syphilitic Rheumatism \u0026 as his turn of enlistment will expire in June, I recommend his discharge from the service.","I. Beu. Gibson \nSurg. P. A. C. S. \nRichmond Genl. Hospital","Official business \nWm. D. Stuart \nCol: 56 Regt.","Sir, \nEnclosed please find Certificate of disability for Private W. T. Cross. It must be approved by the Capt. of his Co. \u0026 Col. of the Reg. \u0026 returned to me- at least this is the usual form.","If there is a prospect of obtaining his discharge at once, I would prefer his remaining in the Hospital until it is received here.","Very resp. \nI. B. Gibson \nSurg. P. A. C. S. \nRichmd Genl. Hospital","Richmond Arsenal \nMarch 8th 1862","My Dear Colonel, \nThis will be handed you by my friend Col. W. D Stuart 56 Va. Vols. who is about joining his Regiment, at present attached to your Department. Col. Stuart has by severe sickness been detained from following a career so nobly begun at Bethel.","His health is now sufficiently restored to justify his joining his command. I bespeak for him your kind consideration in advance, because having known him intimately from boyhood to the present time, I declare him to be a \"gentleman and a soldier\", as Lear was a king- \"every inch\".","Your Friend \nBriscoe G. Baldwin \nCapt. Arty. P. [A?] \nCol. W. W. Mackall \nA. A. Genl.","Head Quarters Floyd's Division \nChattanooga, Mar 17th 1862 \nGeneral Order \nNo. 246","The reenlisted men of this command are entitled to a furlough of sixty days at home, but in case of a collision with the enemy at Knoxville this will be suspended for one week.","By order \nBrig. Gen. Floyd \n[C. Derrick] \nA.A. Gen.","Official \n[Mr]Robin Terry \nA.A. A Gen.","Headquarters Floyd's Division \nCamp [? Childress] Mar 17 1862 \nGeneral Orders \nNo. 27 \nExtract","The entire command will move tomorrow morning on the cars in the following order. 1st Headquarters, 2d Artillery, 3d. 1st Brigade, 4th 2d Brigade.","The 1st Brigade will load its baggage on the cars at 9 o'clock in the [trn]-yard just across the bridge arranging so that their baggage or wagons will not be in the way of Head Qrs.","By order Brig. Gen. Floyd \nPeter Otey \nA.A. Gen","Official \nMr. Robbin Terry \nA.A. A Gen.","Head Qrs Floyd Division \nKnoxville, March 19th/62 \nSpecial Orders \nNo--","Having been relieved from my command I hereby turn over the troops under me to the command of Col. Maney commanding forces at Knoxville Tennessee. The commanding officers of Regts will report for duty at once to Col. Maney","By order Brigdr Gen. Floyd \nPeter Otey \nA.A.G.","The Field Officers and officers commanding regiments will report at these HdQrs as soon as practicable. The General desires to introduce these gentlemen to the commanding officer Col. Maney.","By direction \nBrigdr Gen. Floyd \nPeter Otey \nA.A.G.","Head Quarters Knoxville \nMarch 19th 1862","Col. Stuart \nCommnd. 56th Va. Regt.","You will hold your Regt. ready to move at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Send to these Headquarters by 8 ½O'clock tomorrow morning a report of the strength of your command for duty.","Geo. Maury \nCol. Comdg. at Knoxville.","Hd. Quarters Knoxville \n20th March 1862","Colonel \nW. D. Stuart \n56 Va. Regiment","You are hereby directed to take command of all the forces here, formerly of Genl. Floyd's command in the movement towards Jacksboro. Capt. B. W. Snyder Qr. Master will report to you as Qr. Master for your command. He will be furnished with twelve 4 horse wagons for transportation of your command. If this transportation is more than sufficient for the tents, cooking utensils and ammunition necessary for your command you will please direct your commissary, whom you may select from your command, to load the unappropriated wagons with Flour and Bacon for which he will make requisition on the post commissary at this place.","Respectfully, \nGeo. Maney \nCol. Commanding \nForces at Knoxville","Hd Qrs Knoxville Mch 20th/62 \nSpecial Order \nNo--","Col. Stuart will move with his command tomorrow morning at 6 o'clk on the road to Clinton. You will have rations for one day cooked tonight.","By comd of \nCol. George Maney Comdg Post \nR.B. Snowden Adjt.","Head Qrs Knoxville, March 21st 1862 \nSpecial Order No-","Col Stuart \nYou will hold your command, composed of the 36th, 50th, 51st and 56th Regts in readiness to move at 4 o'clk this afternoon towards Jacksboro.","Col. George Maney Comdg Post \nR.B. Snowden Adj't.","Col. Stuart \nI am instructed by Col. Maney to say you will not put your command on the march until further orders. You are however instructed to hold it ready to move at a moment's notice.","R. B. Snowden Adjt. \nKnoxville March 21st 1862","Hd. Quarters Knoxville \nMarch 21st 1862","Col. Stuart \nCommand. of Floyd Brigade","Your order to march toward Clinton is revoked. I desire to see you at my Hd. Quarters in person at first convenient moment to regard to encamping your command here.","Very Respectfully \nGeo. Maney Col. \nCommnd. At Knoxville","Lebanon, 31st March 1862","Col. Stuart, \nOf so much of your order of the 28th as proposes the formation of a camp near Abingdon by the unfurloughed officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates of \"Floyd's Brigade\", I shall express no opinion at this time. I presume your halt at Abingdon, for instructions from Richmond, was in pursuance of your duty under the direction of Major General Smith. I am glad he has force to spare.","The others parts of your order I cheerfully approve and will sustain. I know of no vice so fatal to our soldiery as intemperance; and, independent of the loss of many genial fellows to the cause in which our swords are drawn, their fall is the gain of the meanest and the most heartless men in community. The vigor of authority shall not be wanting on my part to sustain every effort to limit the pernicious vice.","I enclose an Order, which please hand to Maj. Fisher that he may have a few struck off and sent after such of my men as have left Abingdon.","Your vindicatory note has been successful I imagine in proving that you did not delay marching last winter intentionally, but the failure to join me was a great misfortune to this command.","I am ready however to look forward and not backwards, and hope our acquaintance may be as agreeable in its continuance as it has been awkward in its beginning.","Yours Respectfully, \nH. Marshall \nBrig. Genl. Comd.","Apr 1st 1862 \nCol. Stuart","Dear Sir, \nThe bearer of this note Mr. Hanshew is the father of the soldier in the 50th Regt. The young man is at present in hospital and has been quite a sufferer. He was sick in the autumn and before fairly recovered was taken to the west. He was subjected to all the exposure and hardships at Ft. Donelson where he was frost bitten in the trenches. The retreat and long march have proved too much for him and he is really quite worn out. His father wishes to take\nhim home for a few weeks if possible to [illegible] him \u0026 I think it important for the young man to go. I know the father well, he is worthy of trust and is a man of excellent character.","I am sir very truly yours \nJohn B. Floyd","Confederate States of America \nTREASURY DEPARTMENT \nFIRST AUDITOR'S OFFICE \nApr. 8th 1862","Dear Mr. Stuart, \nI think I shall die if I don't manage to get with the Army in some capacity or other, \u0026 as the circumstances of my family do not admit of my going as a private, I must try to obtain some position which will pay. I have not the presumption to ask for a commission in the Infantry or Artillery, where a knowledge of military tactics is essential, but as all the appointments are not made in the Engineers Corps \u0026 for that a knowledge of Mathematics more than anything else is required, I have thought that I might possibly by some study in the meanwhile fit myself for a position in the Engineers. I would not myself have thought such to be the case, but for the assurance of a friend, who is in the Corps \u0026 and after considerable experience says that I am fully capable of filling such a position creditably. The object of my writing this letter therefore is to request that you will give me a testimonial to be presented to the Sec. of War, who would doubtless be influenced by what you say. Possibly with that \u0026 what I may get old Bledsoe, the Asst. Sec. to say for me, I may obtain a Lieutenancy in the Engineers.","If Frank had been successful I would not myself apply, but I suppose his application is pretty securely pigeon holed \u0026 he will never hear from it, though Tom Harris is now in the city \u0026 a member of the Military Committee of Congress.","I saw Aunt F. last night and she and the children are in good spirits, looking forward to visiting you in Abingdon, in accordance with your letter of recent date. Aunt F. was glad to hear of your being so well \u0026 comfortably fixed \u0026 perhaps her cheerfulness is only the reflection from your good spirits, as she learns from your letters \u0026 others who have seen you.","Ma and the children are pleasantly fixed in Danville \u0026 are all very well: Frank was at Orange C. H. when I heard from him, though there is a rumor that his division went down to reinforce Magurder. The sky is brightening. I have not time to write more at present. Hoping to hear from you soon, I remain yours affectionately. \nW.R. Abbott","Abingdon 20th April 1862 \nCol. Stuart","Dear Sir, \nMrs. Saunders, the bearer of this is the mother of the boy who is applying for a discharge on the score of minority. I sent you the certificate, \u0026 c some days ago. I have no doubt of his being under age. She wants to know the conditions of his application. May I ask you to let her know it?","With the highest respect \nYour obd. Servt. \nJohn B. Floyd","Confederate States of America \nWAR DEPARTMENT \nEngineer's Bureau \nRichmond, Va. 30 April 1862","Genl. G. W. Randolph \nSecretary of War","Sir, \nI have had the pleasure of knowing Col. W. D. Stuart for many years. At Lexington where we were cadets together, his peculiar qualifications as a soldier and tactician, on graduating, led to his immediate appointment as assistant instructor of infantry and artillery tactics, a position\nwhich he held with much credit for three years. Since the commencement of the war he has been constantly engaged on active service, first on the Peninsula and afterwards in the West. In the first locality I had the pleasure of again meeting him and heard him uniformly spoken of as a gallant, efficient, and accomplished officer.","In these days of uncertain tenure of office, your endorsement of the substance of this letter would probably be of great service to him, especially as his standing on the Peninsula and conduct in the Battle of Bethel are personally known to you.","With great respect, your obedient servant, \nA. L. Rives \nActing Chf. Eng. Bu.","War Department \nApril 30th 1862","I take great pleasure in bearing the testimony to the gallantry and conduct of Col. Stuart at the Battle of Bethel of which I was an eye witness, and to his efficiency as an officer and his deportment as a gentleman. He is an educated soldier and I should be sorry for the Country to lose his services. \nGeo. W. Randolph","Camp near Winchester, Va. \nOct 26 1862","My dear Colonel: \nI have rec'd your report of the battle of \"South Mountain\" and with it your very kind note.","I can truly assure you I was much gratified with the expressions of regard and esteem you therein expressed towards me. My brief association with you was among the most pleasant I have formed during the war and I sincerely trust it may be renewed at no distant time, under such auspices that we may be able to cultivate a still closer intimacy. With many prayers for you safety and happiness I remain truly your friend \nR. B. Garnett","Provost Marshal's Office \nLynchburg, Va. \nOct 30th 1862 \nCol. W. D. Stuart","Dear Sir, \nI received this morning a letter from one of the 56th Va. Regt. informing me that \"you \u0026 Maj. Green intended to write to the War Department and endeavor if possible to have me relieved of duty here and ordered to return to Regt.\" I at first doubted its authenticity, but seeing it was from a semi-official source I necessarily attached some importance to it.","I was astonished to hear that you contemplated such a thing as it would undoubtedly place me in a false light before the Department. I presumed you had received official notification of my appointment here.","I have always thought you were magnanimous enough not only to be willing for any officer of your Regt. to obtain promotion and a better position, but would aid him if possible in doing so.","I informed you in three letters before that I applied in Sept. last to Q. M. for transportation to Regt. and applying the same day to Adjt. Gen. Cooper in person to ascertain the point to go to, was directed by him to report to Maj. Gen. Smith for duty. By whom I was sent to Brig. Gen. Winder who ordered me to take charge of the C. S. Military Prison. I remained there about three weeks and discharged the duties satisfactorily to my commissioning officer and was on the 21st Oct. appointed \"Provost Marshal\" of this city with written orders from Maj. Gen. G. W. Smith, a copy of which I send you.","Each position was unsolicited and unexpected by me; but at the same time agreeable ad satisfactory; because the \"posts\" I was assigned were not only easier and higher than the Capt. of Infantry, but also horses and servants furnished me, and paid $180 per month. The pay however is no consideration with me. The chances of promotion are still greater in my present position.","I will also state to you, that is I preferred it, I am legally exempt from military duty by the recent \"exemption act\" passed by both \"Houses of Congress\" and approved by the President. First I have a plantation with over 40 negroes, and on it \"no white male adult not liable to military duty.\" Second I have a large manufacturing mill and my superintendence is necessary for its successful operation. For either 1st or 2nd reasons I am exempt by \"Act of Congress\".","But notwithstanding pecuniary losses I am willing to remain in the army, provided my services will accomplish anything in the cause we are engaged.","I hope this will be satisfactory to you. I fear you did not receive my former letters making substantially the same statements as above; and I feel a conscientious sense of duty, in justice to myself to write to you again","The appointment here was somewhat complimentary to me and I have intimations already of a higher and more responsible position being assigned me.","I would be glad if you would answer this.","Very respectfully \nYour obt. Servant \nThomas D. Jeffress \nCapt. and Provost Marshall of Lynchburg","P.S. I understand that only 8 or 10 efficient men of Co. \"G\" are with the Regt. and only about 22 or 23 in all on roll. I left several in Richmond at Hospital who will probably never recover sufficiently to return to duty. \nT. D. J.","18th Va. Regt. \nNov. 26th 1862 \nCol. W. D. Stuart","Col., \nIn reply to your note rec'd some time since asking of the \"mention made\" of Capt. T. D. Jeffress \"upon\" a report of one of the Richmond battles forwarded by myself to Brigade Hd. Qrs., I have to say that Capt. Jeffress made out the report of the battle himself, he being the Senr. Officer present who was in the fight. When the report was handed to me Lt. Chaffin Actg. Adjt. told me that the officers of the Regt. desired that I should make mention of the good conduct of Capt. Jeffress in battle, as the Capt. from motives of delicacy would of course say nothing of himself. I endorsed upon the report that I was not in the battle myself, was not in command of the Regiment at the time the events spoken of occurred, but that at the request of others, I would state that Capt. Jeffress deserved \"honorable mention\" for good conduct in battle. I have since learned that Lt. Chaffin was not in the fight himself and I am sorry that I acted upon his suggestion and made the endorsement referred to for the reason that I appeared to discriminate in favor of Capt. Jeffress when in fact I knew nothing of the conduct of any officer in the Regiment in the battle alluded to.","I am Col. \nVery Respectfully \nGeo. C. Cabell, Major","Camp Near Petersburg \nof Pickett's Div. Garnett's Brig. \nMarch 7th 1863 \nGenl. S. A. Cooper","Sir, \nI respectfully make an application for 25 Conscripts the requisite number to fill the reduced ranks of my Company at its present standard. You will confer a favour by assigning to the ranks of my Company 25 Conscripts,or any number as you, in your judgement may think proper or circumstances may require. You can see by my muster roll that my company only numbers 31 total present or absent, having never received any Conscripts since its entry into\nservice.","Most Respectfully \nYour obedient Servt. \nF. W. Nelson \nLt. Comd. Co. \"A\" 56th Va.","Camp Near Petersburg, Va. \nMarch 7th 1863","I respectfully ask permission to be absent from my duties for a few days for the following reasons. My property has been dwindling away daily since 25th Dec last, for want of my personal attention. My negroes are roaming through the country without a proper home and I will probably lose them all if I cannot attend to the matter immediately. I leave my company in command of the Capt. I have deferred asking leave of absence until now, because of there being only two (2) officers belonging to the company and the comdg. Officer of the Regt. deems it best that the vacancies of 2nd and 2nd jr. Lieuts. should not be filled at present, I presume because of the smallness of the Co. I reenlisted as a private and have never received a furlough or anything in lieu thereof and have never been absent without leave.","S. D. Cronin 1st Lieut. \nCo. \"I\" 56th Va. Regt.","March 8th, 1863","I respectfully ask for a leave of absence for 20 days to visit my home in Mecklenburg Co. Va. having been in the service for 20 months and having never received but four days furlough since the organization of my Regiment. I hope this application will be granted. I was originally a 12 months Volunteer and subsequently reenlisted for the War.","Lieut. F. W. Nelson \nCo. A. 56th Va. Regt.","Kittrell's Springs \nJuly 27th 1863 \nCol. Wm. D. Stuart","Dear Sir, \nI was transferred from General Hospital No. 10 to Black's and White's Hospital, from that place on the recommendation of the Medical Director in Richmond (Dr. Wm. Carrington) I was allowed the privilege of going home and report once in fifteen days in person or through my Physician's certificate. My furlough was extended the other day, 30 days to enable me to visit\nthe Springs for my health. I am improving very rapidly mow and shall be on, as soon as I am able for duty. You have passed though a very fiery ordeal since I left you. I regret being absent from my company in time of battle. I am truly sorry to learn that you are wounded, hope it will not prove serious, and allow me here to indulge the hope that you will be Genl. Garrett's successor. You certainly deserve the place. I am very anxious to hear from my company. I heard indirectly that Lieut. Finley was wounded, whether seriously or not I did not learn. Pickett's Division was very badly cut up. The mortality among officers was unprecedented. I expect to be here at least two weeks longer. I wish to get entirely well before returning. When I return again I hope to be able to stay with you. Direct your letter to \"Lawrenceville. Brunswick Co. Va.\" With my best wishes that you may speedily recover and when I see you again you may be my Brigadier. I subscribe myself your true friend, \nN. A. Flournoy"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWilliam D. Stuart papers, 1850-1863. MS 0108. VMI Archives, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["William D. Stuart papers, 1850-1863. MS 0108. VMI Archives, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe bulk of the William D. Stuart papers consists of the Civil War papers (60 items; 1861-1863) of Stuart. The papers contain:\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCorrespondence to and from various Confederate Army officers\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMorning and guard reports\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMilitary orders\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInvoices and receipts documenting Stuart's brief service with the 15th Virginia Infantry Regiment and his command of the 56th Virginia Infantry Regiment\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\nOther items include letters of recommendation for a United\nStates Army Commission (1850), a letter from Gabriel Jordan, Jr. (VMI Class of 1850) dated November 1854, and printed material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from VMI, Lexington, Virginia. Letter endorses William D. Stuart's application for a commission in the United States Army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from VMI, Lexington, Virginia. Letter endorses William D. Stuart's application for a commission in the United States Army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from VMI, Lexington, Virginia. Letter endorses William D. Stuart's application for a commission in the United States Army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Huntsville, Alabama. Letter comments on respective marriages, jobs, and future prospects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Richmond, Virginia. Letter asks Virginia Governor John Letcher for an appointment in the Army in the event of secession.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpecial Order No. 81 from Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart is assigned to duty with troops at the camp of instruction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Richmond, Virginia. Letter expresses regret at William D. Stuart's resignation as commanding officer of the Richmond City Guard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from the Camp of Instruction, Richmond. Letter to an unidentified colonel regards the placement of William D. Stuart and other officers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Richmond, Virginia. Letter regards materials to make a tent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Williamsburg, Virginia. Letter orders William D. Stuart to work on fortifications at King's Mill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpecial Order No. 222 from Youngs Farm. Regards payment of troops and powers of attorney. By command of General Magruder and signed by G. B. Cosby, A.A.A.G.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpecial Order No. 280 from the Adjutant Inspector General's office, Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart is promoted and assigned to the command of the 56th Virginia Regiment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Camp Lee. Letter regards a flag for William D. Stuart's regiment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpecial Order No. 232 from Richmond, Virginia by command of Secretary of War per John Withers. The 56th Virginia Infantry regiment is ordered to Jeffersonville, Virginia to report to Brigadier General Marshall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Pound Gap, Virginia. William D. Stuart is ordered to move his regiment forward by Pound Gap towards Prestonsburg, Kentucky.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Wytheville, Virginia. Telegram regards wagons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Wytheville, Virginia. Letter regards transportation vouchers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart's regiment is ordered to Nashville, Tennessee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Knoxville, Tennessee. General A. S. Johnson orders William D. Stuart's regiment to remain with General Marshall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart's regiment is to proceed to Pound Gap to report to General Marshall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpecial Order No. 8 from Headquarters 1st Brigade, Army of Eastern Kentucky, Camp near Paintville, by order of General Marshall. William D. Stuart's regiment is to move immediately without further delay.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Paintville, Kentucky. William D. Stuart must move his regiment without delay.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart is directed by the Secretary of War to report to General Marshall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter concerns orders to go to Pound Gap, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter regards contradictory orders and illness of William D. Stuart and men.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter reprts on sickness of regiment and men in hospital.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpecial Order No. 1 from Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart's regiment\nis detached from General Marshall's command and will proceed to Bowling Green, Kentucky to General A. S. Johnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter regards order to proceed to Bowling Green, Kentucky. Letter also encloses Special Order No. 1 (dated January 2, 1862).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Richmond, Virginia. Letter regards confusion in orders to 56th Virginia Infantry Regiment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Richmond, Virginia. Letter regards William T. Cross' certificate of disability.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Richmond, Virginia. Letter regards William D. Stuart rejoining his regiment after a severe illness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Order No. 246 from Floyd's Division, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Reenlisted men are entitled to a 60 day furlough, but this may be suspended in case of \"collision with the enemy.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Order No. 27 (extract) from Floyd's Division, Camp Bettie Childress. Order regards movement of the command via rail.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpecial Order from Floyd's Division, Knoxville, Tennessee. General Floyd is relieved of command and regimental commanders are to report to Colonel George Maney.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is to hold his regiment ready to move and to report on the strength of his command.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is directed to \"take command of all the forces here, formerly of Genl Floyd's command, in the movement towards Jacksboro.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpecial order from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is to move tomorrow on the road to Clinton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpecial Order from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is to hold command of the 36th, 50th, 51st and 56th Virginia Regiments in readiness to move towards Jacksboro.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is not to move his command until further orders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart march towards Clinton is revoked.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Lebanon. Letter regards previous orders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter regards releasing a sick soldier (Hanshew, 50th Virginia Regiment) to go home with his father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter requests recommendation to enter the Confederate Army and family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter regards discharge of an underage soldier.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Richmond, Virginia. Letter commends William D. Stuart, with an endorsement specifically about his gallantry at the Battle of Bethel, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Winchester, Virginia. Letter acknowledges receipt of report of Battle of South Mountain (Maryland) and expresses personal regard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Lynchburg, Virginia. Letter protests Thomas D. Jeffress' return to the Regiment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter regards a report in which George C. Cabell erroneously commended Captain Thomas D. Jeffress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Petersburg, Virginia. Letter requests 25 conscripts to fill reduced ranks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Petersburg, Virginia. Letter requests to be absent from duty to see to business at home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter requests a leave of absence to visit home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Kittrell's Springs, North Carolina. This letter was written after the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and it comments on casualties in regiment and general news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Richmond, Virginia. Telegram regards search of trains for stolen coffee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport for the 56th Virginia Regiment at Camp Robertson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport for the 56th Virginia Regiment at Camp Robertson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpecial duty roster for the 56th Virginia Regiment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGuard report for the 56th Virginia Regiment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for wall tent pins and poles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for ordnance (cartridges).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice of commutation of quarters and fuel for 1st Lieutenant George W. May, Company C. 56th Virginia, for the period of December 8 to 31, 1861.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice of commutation of quarters and fuel for 1st Lieutenant George W. May, Company C. 56th Virginia, for the period of January 1 to 31, 1862.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for wall tents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo receipts for muskets and cartridge boxes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for clothing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for commissary stores.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes a draft of a speech given upon presentation of a flag to the 56th Virginia Infantry Regiment, court-martial specifications, and other documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes programs and other documents from Roanoke, Virginia area camps.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The bulk of the William D. Stuart papers consists of the Civil War papers (60 items; 1861-1863) of Stuart. The papers contain:\n Correspondence to and from various Confederate Army officers Morning and guard reports Military orders Invoices and receipts documenting Stuart's brief service with the 15th Virginia Infantry Regiment and his command of the 56th Virginia Infantry Regiment \nOther items include letters of recommendation for a United\nStates Army Commission (1850), a letter from Gabriel Jordan, Jr. (VMI Class of 1850) dated November 1854, and printed material.","Written from VMI, Lexington, Virginia. Letter endorses William D. Stuart's application for a commission in the United States Army.","Written from VMI, Lexington, Virginia. Letter endorses William D. Stuart's application for a commission in the United States Army.","Written from VMI, Lexington, Virginia. Letter endorses William D. Stuart's application for a commission in the United States Army.","Written from Huntsville, Alabama. Letter comments on respective marriages, jobs, and future prospects.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Letter asks Virginia Governor John Letcher for an appointment in the Army in the event of secession.","Special Order No. 81 from Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart is assigned to duty with troops at the camp of instruction.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Letter expresses regret at William D. Stuart's resignation as commanding officer of the Richmond City Guard.","Written from the Camp of Instruction, Richmond. Letter to an unidentified colonel regards the placement of William D. Stuart and other officers.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Letter regards materials to make a tent.","Written from Williamsburg, Virginia. Letter orders William D. Stuart to work on fortifications at King's Mill.","Special Order No. 222 from Youngs Farm. Regards payment of troops and powers of attorney. By command of General Magruder and signed by G. B. Cosby, A.A.A.G.","Special Order No. 280 from the Adjutant Inspector General's office, Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart is promoted and assigned to the command of the 56th Virginia Regiment.","Written from Camp Lee. Letter regards a flag for William D. Stuart's regiment.","Special Order No. 232 from Richmond, Virginia by command of Secretary of War per John Withers. The 56th Virginia Infantry regiment is ordered to Jeffersonville, Virginia to report to Brigadier General Marshall.","Written from Pound Gap, Virginia. William D. Stuart is ordered to move his regiment forward by Pound Gap towards Prestonsburg, Kentucky.","Written from Wytheville, Virginia. Telegram regards wagons.","Written from Wytheville, Virginia. Letter regards transportation vouchers.","Written from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart's regiment is ordered to Nashville, Tennessee.","Written from Knoxville, Tennessee. General A. S. Johnson orders William D. Stuart's regiment to remain with General Marshall.","From Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart's regiment is to proceed to Pound Gap to report to General Marshall.","Special Order No. 8 from Headquarters 1st Brigade, Army of Eastern Kentucky, Camp near Paintville, by order of General Marshall. William D. Stuart's regiment is to move immediately without further delay.","Written from Paintville, Kentucky. William D. Stuart must move his regiment without delay.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart is directed by the Secretary of War to report to General Marshall.","Written from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter concerns orders to go to Pound Gap, Virginia.","Written from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter regards contradictory orders and illness of William D. Stuart and men.","Written from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter reprts on sickness of regiment and men in hospital.","Special Order No. 1 from Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart's regiment\nis detached from General Marshall's command and will proceed to Bowling Green, Kentucky to General A. S. Johnston.","Written from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter regards order to proceed to Bowling Green, Kentucky. Letter also encloses Special Order No. 1 (dated January 2, 1862).","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Letter regards confusion in orders to 56th Virginia Infantry Regiment.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Letter regards William T. Cross' certificate of disability.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Letter regards William D. Stuart rejoining his regiment after a severe illness.","General Order No. 246 from Floyd's Division, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Reenlisted men are entitled to a 60 day furlough, but this may be suspended in case of \"collision with the enemy.\"","General Order No. 27 (extract) from Floyd's Division, Camp Bettie Childress. Order regards movement of the command via rail.","Special Order from Floyd's Division, Knoxville, Tennessee. General Floyd is relieved of command and regimental commanders are to report to Colonel George Maney.","Written from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is to hold his regiment ready to move and to report on the strength of his command.","Written from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is directed to \"take command of all the forces here, formerly of Genl Floyd's command, in the movement towards Jacksboro.\"","Special order from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is to move tomorrow on the road to Clinton.","Special Order from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is to hold command of the 36th, 50th, 51st and 56th Virginia Regiments in readiness to move towards Jacksboro.","Written from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is not to move his command until further orders.","Written from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart march towards Clinton is revoked.","Written from Lebanon. Letter regards previous orders.","Letter regards releasing a sick soldier (Hanshew, 50th Virginia Regiment) to go home with his father.","Letter requests recommendation to enter the Confederate Army and family news.","Written from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter regards discharge of an underage soldier.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Letter commends William D. Stuart, with an endorsement specifically about his gallantry at the Battle of Bethel, Virginia.","Written from Winchester, Virginia. Letter acknowledges receipt of report of Battle of South Mountain (Maryland) and expresses personal regard.","Written from Lynchburg, Virginia. Letter protests Thomas D. Jeffress' return to the Regiment.","Letter regards a report in which George C. Cabell erroneously commended Captain Thomas D. Jeffress.","Written from Petersburg, Virginia. Letter requests 25 conscripts to fill reduced ranks.","Written from Petersburg, Virginia. Letter requests to be absent from duty to see to business at home.","Letter requests a leave of absence to visit home.","Written from Kittrell's Springs, North Carolina. This letter was written after the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and it comments on casualties in regiment and general news.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Telegram regards search of trains for stolen coffee.","Report for the 56th Virginia Regiment at Camp Robertson.","Report for the 56th Virginia Regiment at Camp Robertson.","Special duty roster for the 56th Virginia Regiment.","Guard report for the 56th Virginia Regiment.","Receipt for wall tent pins and poles.","Receipt for ordnance (cartridges).","Invoice of commutation of quarters and fuel for 1st Lieutenant George W. May, Company C. 56th Virginia, for the period of December 8 to 31, 1861.","Invoice of commutation of quarters and fuel for 1st Lieutenant George W. May, Company C. 56th Virginia, for the period of January 1 to 31, 1862.","Receipt for wall tents.","Two receipts for muskets and cartridge boxes.","Receipt for clothing.","Receipt for commissary stores.","This series includes a draft of a speech given upon presentation of a flag to the 56th Virginia Infantry Regiment, court-martial specifications, and other documents.","This series includes programs and other documents from Roanoke, Virginia area camps."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eManuscript collections in the VMI Archives are made available for educational and research use. The VMI Archives should be cited as the source. The user assumes all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any copyright holders. Materials from our collections may not be redistributed, published or reproduced without permission from the VMI Archives. 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Stuart papers","Confederate States of America. Army—Virginia Infantry Regiment, 56th","Confederate States of America. Army—Virginia Infantry Regiment, 15th","Virginia Military Institute—Class of 1850","United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865","United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Personal narratives—Confederate","Correspondence","Orders (military records)","Receipts (financial records)","Letters of recommendation","There are no restrictions.","Full text transcriptions of the bulk of these papers are available   online .","The papers are arranged by document type and chronologically thereunder.","William Dabney Stuart was born on September 30, 1830 in Staunton, Virginia to Thomas Jefferson Stuart and Martha M. Dabney. He did preparatory work at the Staunton Academy and then entered VMI in July 1847. Stuart graduated from VMI in July 1850, standing 3rd in a class of 17.","Following graduation he taught at VMI (1850-1853) and was subsequently a principal of classical schools in Washington D.C. and Richmond, Virginia. He married Frances Harris of Loudon County, Virginia and the couple had three children: Martha, Mary Bell, and William.","During the Civil War, Stuart briefly commanded the 15th Virginia Infantry Regiment, and was then appointed Colonel with the 56th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Confederate States Army. He was mortally wounded at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania during Pickett's Charge, and died in a hospital in Staunton on July 29, 1863.","The William D. Stuart papers were originally in the possession of Stuart's widow and were passed down through the family before being donated to VMI.","Virginia Military Institute \nDecember 3 1850","My dear sir \nHaving understood that Mr. W. D. Stuart is an applicant for a commission in the U.S. Army I take the liberty of addressing you a private note on his behalf. I do this in preference to the formal course of a recommendation, because you will be better able to appreciate what I may\nsay in the unreserved mode in which I write.","You are aware that Mr. S. entered this Institution as a cadet in July 1847. After completing the whole course of studies, he was graduated in July last with great credit. You will see by the accompanying merit roll that in all his classes he maintained a most respectable standing, while in Geology, Artillery, and Infantry Tactics, he was No. 1. And in Military Engineering 3rd.","In addition to these facts, he was a commissioned officer of the Corps of Cadets and gave great satisfaction to us in the manner in which he discharged his duties.","So high was our estimate of his talents as a scholar and qualifications as an officer, that on a vacancy in our Corps of Instructors occurring in July, he was selected as an assistant Professor of Math. And assistant Instructor of Tactics and has been discharging these duties with great credit up to the present time.","From my personal knowledge of the qualifications of an officer of the Army, I know that there are few young men who enter the Service from West Point who are better qualified than Stuart and I have no doubt he will make as fine an officer as can be selected for the Infantry arm of\nthe Service.","You know his moral qualifications as well as I do. If any doubt had existed on this point, he would never have been appointed an officer in this Institution.","hope it will be the pleasure of the President to confer an appointment upon Mr. Stuart.","This Institution has been laboring now for 11 years in building up its Military reputation and we should like to have an opportunity of comparing our graduates with those from West Point.","With cordial regards to Mrs. S. \nI am very truly your friend \nFrancis H. Smith","Hon. A. H. H. Stuart\nWashington City","Va. Military Institute \nDec 10th 1850","Mr. W.D. Stuart desires to obtain a commision in the U.S. Army. His present post, that of Asst. Instructor of Tactics in the Va. Military Institute is evidence of his peculiar fitness for command. His acquirements at the Insititute of which he is a graduate, embracing Engineering, Artillery, and Infantry Tactics, with Mathematics and the Natural Sciences were such as to induce the authorities of the Institute to select him from her many graduates for the very responsible situation he now holds, a situation which requires judgement, firmness and decision of Character- all of which Mr. Stuart possesses in a high degree. His uniformily gentlemanly\ndeportment has endeared him to his fellow officers and will make him grace the position he seeks. \nThomas. H. Williamson \nProf. Engr. \u0026 Arch.","VMI \nDecember 10, 1850","W. Stuart was appointed immediately after his graduation Assistant Instructor of Tactics in the Virginia Military Institute. This is the highest and most indubitable testimony of the estimate of his military qualifications, by those who know him best. The course of military instruction and discipline at the Institute conforms strictly to that of the U.S.A. at West Point and is conducted by graduates of the latter Institution. If from a jealous regard to the character of the Army, the\nGovernment ordinarily restricts its commissions to the graduates of West Point, the same principle might well incline it, in its exceptional appointment of citizens, to feel a preference for those, who like Mr. Stuart, have at a State Institution, thoroughly prepared themselves for the Military Profession. \nJohn T.L. Preston \nProf. V.M.I","Engineers Office \nMemphis and Charleston Railroad \nHuntsville \nNovember 22d 1854","My Dear Stuart, \nI have just stolen away from my wife and have run up to my office with the determination of writing you. I was not a little surprised to learn through your letter that you had written me. Your letter, which reached me about ten days ago was the only one I have received from you since your marriage. I wrote you at that particularly interesting time a note of congratulations, as well as a letter, just before your mariage, but have received no letter in return. Now my good fellow I have no doubt but what you think that you wrote me, but as for my part I am inclined to think that you did not. I am sure I should not think it strange if you had not for you are a newly married man, and as a matter of course can not afford to give your friends many thoughts, at least for a while.","It is really refreshing, my old friend to hear from you and especially to know that you are a married man and in the full enjoyment of the pleasures that attend married love. My wife returned from Virginia about the first of September with much improved health---and my boy is a most magnificent fellow. A look at him might be of some service to you. Don't blush my dear fellow I don't mean any thing.","Dabney, what under the sun has become of all of our class mates. You are living in the center of our great union and should be posted up on every thing. I never see the names of any of our class in the papers, nor do I ever correspond with any of them, hence I am utterly ignorant of their movements. I never any thing from Lexington since you left there. Have any of our old acquaintances married off since our days-.","Matters here are still wearing a pleasant and flattering aspect. Our road is moving on finely, and we trust ere many more months pass away, that we will have a large and important portion of our work finished. I wish that we had a good comfortable post to offer you here. We are finishing up so fast that we are reducing the Corps instead of increasing. Still, should you ever make up your mind to embark in the profession, we might look out for a post for you.","Your school I trust will for the present afford you a comfortable competency, and something besides. School teaching, like every thing else has its reverses, its calms and its storms. We can find no profession that is made up entirely of sunshine. We must expect the life of man to harmonize with nature, having its passing clouds and refreshing sunshine in equal turns. I with all my hopeful temperament, have had my moments of gloom and anxiety, but with a fond wife, no less hopeful than myself, to cheer me, I have faced all and am now full of bright anticipation. Nor does this come about from any fortune, or particular promises, but all from a conviction that there is room for everyone in this world and plenty for everyone to do, and that industry when ever it is found is in the course of time rewarded. This is an unusually difficult time with almost everyone. There seems to be a weariness in the money market in every quarter. Men experience great difficulty in meeting their general expenses. This state of affairs, I have no doubt has had its influence upon your school, and I feel assured that there will be an improvement after a little while. I hope my dear Stuart, that you will continue to keep me posted up in regard to your movements, for I may find a good offering out South that would please you, and if such should be the case, it would give me inexpressible pleasure to serve you. I will always be on the look out. A new country is better for a young man in any profession. The competition is not so great and pay better. Present me the kindest manner to your good wife and receive the renewed assurance of your old and sincere friend and classmate. \nGabe Jordan Jr.","Richmond, Va. \nApril 15th 1861","Gov. Letcher \nDear Sir, \nI enclose recommendations from the Authorities of the Va. Military Institute to the Secretary of War under Mr. Fillmore for an appointment in the U.S. Army at that time. I submit them to you in my own behalf for an appointment under the State of Va. in the event of her secession from\nthe present Federal Government. I desire an appointment to any position in which my services may be required the most valuable, either in the active duties of the field or otherwise. \nVery respectfully yours, \nWm. D. Stuart","Head Qrs Va Forces \nRichmond Va. May 20 1861 \nSpecial Orders \nNo 82","Col. T.P. August, Lt. Col. W.D. Stuart, and Major Thos. G. Peyton, Virginia Vols, are assigned to duty with the troops at the \"Camp of Instruction\" and will report without delay to Col. William Gilham commanding that post.","By order of Maj. Genl Lee \nR. Garnett \nAdjt Genl.","Richmond \nMay 21st 1861 \nCapt. W. D. Stuart","Dear Sir, \nAt a meeting of the Richmond City Guard held this evening, the undersigned were appointed a Committee to express to you the unfeigned regret of the Company on having read your resignation, and to tender you the sincere thanks of the Company for the faithfulness and efficiency with which you have discharged the duties of Commanding Officer.","While the Company deplores deeply the necessity which separates you from us, we rejoice to know that our Beloved State will have the benefit of your valuable services.","Permit us personally and on behalf of the Company to tender you our best wishes for your future happiness and prosperity.","Very truly your friends, \nDavis N. Walker \nSamuel M. Bailey \nJames E. Burress","Unofficial","Camp of Instruction \nMay 23rd","My dear Col. \nWhen three field officers were assigned to duty here, I was so green as to put each in command of a Regt., having no other officers who knew any thing about organizing a Regt. This arrangement does not seem to have suited Col. August, who has been complaining to the powers that be, and I have received an order directing me to assign them all to one Regt--that of Col. August of course. Col. Stuart is one of them, and is totally unprepared for the field; he will make application to Gen. Fauntleroy this evening for a few days, please see what you can do for him. Gen. F. though may not have him in his Divn, if so he will have to go to Col. Magruder of course.","Yours sincerely \nW. Gilham","Richmond \nJuly 5th 1861 \nLt. Col. Stewart [Stuart] \n3rd Regt. Va. Vols. \nYorktown","Dear Sir, \nSometime, about the latter part of May or the commencement of June your lady Mrs. Stewart in company with Mrs. Lucy Wharton called at my Office in order to procure material for the purpose of making you a tent as they were unable to get a tent allready made: and stated that you were without one. Under these circumstances, I furnished the necessary material with the consent of Col. Heth the then Q.M. General who instructed me to take your receipt for one tent. The receipt has been delayed from various causes, partly because I did not know the address of Mrs. Stewart or yourself. Should you receive this letter I would be much obliged that you sign and return me the enclosed receipt; by your prompt attention to wit you will much oblige.","Yours very respectfully, \nMaury Garland \nCapt. and Asst. Q. M.","Head Quarters Williamsburg \nJuly 25th 1861","Col., \nThe General having understood that Colonel August is unwell. He directs that you will urge with the greatest vigor the work on the Fortification at King's Mill. In order to do this you will have but one drill a day in the evening. The working hours will be from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. and from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. The guns to place in the various works are now on the way here and it is specially desired to have the works ready for them at the earliest moment.","I am sir very respectfully \nYour obedient servant \nG. B. Cosby \nMaj. and AAAG","Adjutant Inspr Genl's Office \nRichmond \nSept 17th 1861 \nExtract \nSpecial Orders \nNo. 280","XI. Lieut Colonel William D. Stuart Virginia Volunteers is promoted to be Colonel and assigned to the Command of the 56th Virginia Regiment just organized at Camp Lee, near this city, andwill report accordingly.","By order of the Secretary of War \n[Geo. Deas] \nA.A.G.","Camp Lee \nNov. 15th 1861 \nCol. George W. Munford","Sir \nI had the honor receive at the hands of Col. S. Bassett French the Flag of Va. intended for the Regiment I have the honor to command, also the accompanying letter of presentation from you.","As the commanding officer of the Regt. and its organ upon this occasion, I need not assure you that I received it with pride and satisfaction. Regarding it as the emblem of the honor and purity of our Mother State, hitherto unsullied in Council or War it shall be carefully guarded that it receive no detriment at the hands of the Regiment to which you have confided. I think I can with all safety assure you, and that the Sons of Va., voluntarily of the 56th Va. Regt. will ever be found at their post of duty and that they will never do discredit to the sacred cause in which they have enlisted.","The Daughters of Va. whose fair hands have wrought this beautiful emblem of Va.'s honor, will never have cause to blush for shame at the conduct of their brothers.","I am very respectfully \nYour obedient servant \nWilliam D. Stuart, Col. \nCommanding 56th Va. Regt.","Adjt and Insp Genls Office \nRichmond, Nov 21st 1861 \nExtract \nSpecial Orders \nNo 232","XI. The 56th Regiment Virginia Volunteers, Col. Stuart Commanding, will proceed without delay, via Wytheville, to Jeffersonville, VA. and report for duty to Brig. Genl. Marshall.","By Command of the Sec. of War \nJno. Withers \nAsst. Adjt. Genl.","Head Quarters Brigade \nPound Gap \n1 Dec 1861","Col. Stuart, \nSir, \nIn reply to your note reporting your command to me, I direct that you move your regiment forward by Pound Gap towards Prestonburg in Kentucky, as soon as possible after the reception of the order, unless you should receive other directions from Maj. Genl. George B. Crittenden at Knoxville.","I am sir, \nYour obedient servant, \nHumphrey Marshall \nBrig. Genl.","Some of the wagoners I hired and started left the teams on the road. I am compelled to go to Abingdon by private conveyance ad will purchase some waggons \u0026 c by the way and hire other wagoners.","W. Gibboney \nA. Q. M.","Transportation Office C.S.A \nWytheville, Va. December 2nd 1861 \nCol. W. D. Stuart \nCom. 56th Regt. Va. Vols. \nAbingdon Va.","Colonel, \nThe Frt. Agt. of the Va. and Tenn. R. R. has requested me to give him vouchers for the transportation of the stores in the Train which accompanied that containing your Regiment from Wytheville to Abigdon and allso for the baggage of the Regiment.","Will you please inform me whether you have already provided receipt for the transportation and whether the baggage was entitled to transportable from government. I have the honor to be","Very Respectfully \nYour obedient servant \nA. Meade Smith \nCapt. \u0026 [Acting] QM CSA","Hd. Qts. Knoxville, Tenn \nDec. 5th 1861","To- \nCol. Stuart \nCommd. 56th Regt. Va. Vols.","You will move with your Regiment as soon as transportation can be furnished to you, to Nashville Tenn.","By Command of \nMaj. Genl. G. B. Crittenden \nA.S. Cunningham \nA.A. Genl.","Received at: Abingdon Dec 10 1861","By Telegraph from: Knoxville Dec 10 \nTo: Col. Stuart","Genl. Johnson orders that your Regiment remain with Genl. Marshall W. H. Carroll \nBrig. Genl.","Received at: Abingdon Dec 11 1861 \nBy Telegraph from: Richmond Dec 11 \nTo: Col. W. D. Stuart","Proceed with your Regiment to Pound Gap and report to Genl. Marshall. The Quarter Masters Dept. is ordered to furnish transportation.","S. Cooper \nA. G.","Headquarters 1st Brigade \nArmy of Eastern Ky. \nCamp near Paintville \nDec 21st 1861","Special Order \nNo. 8","Col. Stuart is directed to move his Regiment from Abingdon immediately with such transportation as can be procured. It is of the first importance to the safety and success of the command on this frontier that the reinforcements destined for the forces already here shall move to the front without delay. Fine opportunities for brilliant successes have been lost for want of their presence ad others are daily passing away. The weather has favored the\nmovement of the troops, but has not been taken at advantage. The General directs that the movement be commenced without further delay and that the passage of the troops over Pound Gap be notified to him by the returning courier.","By order of \nBrig. Genl. H. Marshall \nAtt. B. H. Bradley \nA. Adjt. Genl.","1861 December 22 \nPaintsville, KY 22nd Dec.","Col. Stuart, \nI send express to you to move your regiment without delay. I am before a force so much superior to me in number, according to the report of reliable scouts, that I can scarcely hope to avoid a collision-- it may be disastrous to us- until you arrive.","If there are any forces near your route who are disengaged I would like exceedingly to have them assist me now. I am here with a force not amounting to 1500 men fit for duty. I shall struggle to keep off the evil day as long possible for you to arrive.","Yours truly \u0026 c \nH. Marshall \nBrig. Genl.","[note on back] \nPress transportation any where you can, if it is not ready, but travel lightly for the roads are deep. H.M.","Adj. [\u0026] Inspect. Genl's Office \nRichmond Dec 24/61","Sir, \nThe Secretary of War directs that you immediately proceed to carry out the instructions referred to in your comn of the 23rd inst. by reporting, with all your effective force, for duty to Brig. General Marshall, making proper provisions for your sick at Abingdon.","Very Respectfully \nYour Obd. Servt. \nR. H. Chilton \nA. Genl.","Lt. Col. Philip P. Slaughter \nOr/ Commanding Officer \n56 Reg. Va. Vols. \nAbingdon , Va.","Abingdon (Va) Dec 27th 1861","To- \nCol. Wm. D Stuart","Dear Sir: \nSince my arrival I have received orders to go immediately to Pound Gap from both the Sec. of War and Gen. Marshall. The order from Gen. M is both peremptory and urgent, and it is asource of the greatest mortification to me to find that, at so critical a juncture we are totally impotent, and I much fear (\"entre nous\") our reputation may suffer in the mind of the public\nwho cannot be aware of the embarrassing circumstances by which we are surrounded. I think it would be well if you could represent us in our true colors to the War Dept. Genl. M. writes that he is threatened by a superior force and urges our immediate movement which I am unable to comply with, not having more than eight or nine waggons and no horses. At the very earliest moment possible I will move on to Pound Gap with the fragment of the Regt.","From what I have learned since writing the above, the opinion prevails in Richmond that the Regt. declined transportation on account of the \"onerous march across the mountains\". You can judge of the correctness of this statement. Such seems to be the prevailing opinion in the War. Dept. Can you do any thing for us? I am in the worst quandary I ever was in my life.\nPlease telegraph me at your earliest convenience.","I think a court of inquiry would be beneficial to us: at all events, it could not injure us.","Yours very respectfully \nP. P. Slaughter \nFavor of \nCapt. R. B. Patterson \nQ.M.","P. S. \nI enclose you Genl. Marshall's orders, that you may see how we stand. I retain a copy of them. You will also find enclosed, the order from War Dept. P. P. S.","Abingdon Dec. 27th 1861","To- \nBrig. Gen. Marshall","Sir, \nI am in receipt of your order of the 22nd inst. as well as your Special Order No. 8. It is a source of exceeding regret and much mortification to me, to find myself in so crippled a condition at such a critical junction. Twice since being here I have prepared transportation in accordance with orders, once to join your command, which, when I got ready, I was compelled to decline by an order from Gen. Crittenden \"to go immediately to Nashville and report to Gen. A. S. Johnston. I then went to work to get transportation by rail, to Nashville, which I after some days effected. My men were at the Depot ready to march on the cars, when I received a telegram to remain and go with you; since which time I have not been able to collect the necessary No. of waggons to convey the Regt. in obedience to orders.","The Regt. is reduced lower than one half its original size, and is at present in a very debilitated condition. Col. Stuart, by reason of sickness has not been able to take command of the Regt. since leaving Richmond. Maj. Green is absent, all of which combine to place me in a very unenviable position upon the receipt of your orders.","As to the matter of transportation, I have only eight or ten wagons and no horses, as the Quartermaster informs me.","I shall endeavor to the utmost of my ability to move at the earliest time possible and most sincerely hope I may be able to join you in season to render some assistance in the existing emergency.","This will be handed to you by Capt. T. Smith of the 56th Regt. in whom you can place all confidence.","I did not see your courier or I should have dispatched by him. He left before I could reach the village.","I am sir very respectfully \nYour obt. Servt. \nPhilip P. Slaughter \nLt. Col. Comd. 56th Va. Regt.","Abigdon, Va. Dec 27th 1861","Dear Colonel, \n'Tis said and I more than partly believe that we are to move to Marshall's Command per Pound Gap and that in some what of a hurry. Your command is worse off in the matter of sick men than when you left. There are forty men in the Hospital and the number would be greater in there were room. The number of sick men in camp and private houses is hardly to be believed,\nbut I think I am in bounds when I say that if 250 men rank and file are able to march now, 'tis more than I expect. But 'tis hardly friendly to trouble you with such things so I'll only say that we \"what can go\" are going and no mistake. I hear you have some idea of joining us immediately. Don't hurry unless you are really strong enough; for I know your impetuosity of old.","In great haste \nM. Howard","Adjt and Inspr. Genl's Office \nRichmond, Jany 2 1862 \nExtract \nSpecial Order \nNo. 1","Colonel Stuart's 56th Regiment Virginia Volunteers is detached from General Humphrey Marshall's Command and will immediately proceed to Bowling Green Kentucky and report to General A.S. Johnston for duty with General Floyds Brigade.","By Command of the Secretary of War \nJohn Withers \nAsst. Adjt Genl.","Abingdon (Va) Jan. 4th 1862 \nCol. Wm. D. Stuart","Dear Sir, \nOn yesterday, I received from Captain Patteson the following telegram. \"Col. Stuart says, leave Jacob and his baggage\". The dispatch said nothing of the horse. I was in much doubt about him. Before determining, I mentioned the matter to Dr. Howard, who by the way, has been confined to his bed for a week, \u0026 is unable to proceed with the Regt. and intends keeping his horse with him. After reading the telegram, he advised me to leave your horse in care of Jacob. All your baggage, that is, all I imagine was meant, consisting of a horse, saddle \u0026 bridle, sword, bed, trunk, field glasses, canteen, etc. I turned over to Mr. Benham, saw them placed together in a room and showed them to Jacob.","Six companies of the Regt. have gone in under command of Capt. Boswell. The others will go tonight. I am much afraid we may be detained somewhat at Union, the first burnt bridge; but our great object is to get away as fast as possible from the road to Pound Gap. I will send you a copy of the order from the Sec of War.","Jacob, during our troubles has been invaluable to me; indeed, while attending to my immensible duties, I think I would have starved but for his providing hand \u0026 it is almost certain I would have lost everything I have, but for his care. I envy you very much the possession of so valuable \u0026 reliable a servant.","I told him he would either keep his horse in the Quartermaster's stables or at Mr. Benham's. In case I misinterpreted your wishes concerning him, and you should desire him to be sent on, write to Dr. Howard, who expects to carry his own, \u0026 it will be as easy to carry two as one. Should you adopt this suggestion, you had better write immediately.","Jacob desires me to say he is tolerable well and would like to hear from you as soon as convenient to know what course he is to pursue.","Maj. Green has not returned as yet. Two of Capt. Richardson's men deserted last night. I think we have some thirty sick in the hospital.","Hoping this may find you rapidly recovering and that you are able to rejoin us speedily.","I am sir, very respectfully \nP. P. Slaughter","[on back]\nCopy of Order from Sec. Of War \nExtract \nAdj. \u0026 Inspect. Genl's Office \nRichmond Jan 2th 1862 \nSpecial Order \nNo. 1:","XV. Colonel Stuart's 56th Regt. Virginia Volunteers, is detached from General Humphrey Marshall's Command and will immediately proceed to Bowling Green, Kentucky and report to General A. S. Johnston for duty with General Floyd's Brigade.","By Command of the Secretary of War \nJno. Withers \nAsst. Adjt. Genl. Col. 56th Va. Vols. \nTo \nCommanding Officer C. S. Forces \nAbingdon Va.","Richmond, Va. \nFeb 5th 62","Genl. Cooper, \nSir, \nI beg leave to submit he following statement to the Department in refutation of the report, circulated I understand at the Head Qrs. by the Brigade Quartermaster of Genl. Humphrey Marshall's, to the effect that I had refused transportation for my command, from Abingdon to Prestonsburg the point to which I was ordered by Genl. Marshall. The enclosed letter written at\nthe time to the Department has bearing upon this point. The following is a literal copy of the order from Genl. Marshall by my messenger Capt. Taylor sent to inquire to which point I should march.","Head Quarters Brigade \nPound Gap 1 Dec 1861","Col. Stuart, \nSir, \nIn reply to your note reporting your command to me, I direct that you move your regiment forward by Pound Gap towards Prestonsburg in Kentucky, as soon as possible after the reception of this order, unless you should receive directions from Major Genl. George B. Crittenden at Knoxville.","I am sir \nYour Obt. Servt. \nHumphrey Marshall \nBrig. Genl.","This order was received late at night and a verbal message by Capt. Taylor that a messenger had been sent to Genl. Crittenden to inform him of my presence in Abingdon and that he should write order me to join him if necessary. Not hearing from Genl. Crittenden in forty-eight hours after, I sent Lieut. Col. Slaughter to Knoxville to find out from him at once whether I should expect orders from him and he replied by Telegraph through Capt. Cunningham his A. A. Genl.ordering me to Nashville \u0026 Col. Slaughter returned the following day bringing the following order by which this is an exact copy.","Hd. Qrs. Knoxville Tenn. \nDec. 5th 1861 \nTo Col Stuart \nCommand. 56th Regt. Va. Vols.","Sir, \nYou will move with your Regiment as soon as transportation can be furnished to Nashville, Tenn.","By Command of \nMaj. Genl. G. B. Crittenden \nS. Cunningham A.Genl.","The interval between the reception of these orders was employed by me busily in attempting to procure transportation and finding no Quarter Master at Abingdon, I sent to Wytheville for Capt. Gibboney A. Q. M. at that point to report at Abingdon and assist me. My own QuarterMaster was without funds for that purpose. Capt. Gibboney arrived bringing with him waggons purchased on the road and by the time of the reception of the order from Genl. Crittenden, I had enough transportation on hand, by leaving some articles behind to enable me to reach Prestonsburg. Of course after the order of Genl. Crittenden, I had no use for the waggons and ordered them immediately to be loaded with supplies of ordnance and other belongings to Genl. Marshall and forwarded to him","Immediately upon the receipt of Genl. Crittenden's order, so uncertain was telegraphic communication, I sent my Quarter Master to Lynchburg to arrange for transportation by rail to Nashville and had already procured it and would have been on the way to Nashville but for the bursting of one of the [flues] of the engines, when I received the following order by Telegraph\nreceived in Abingdon Dec 10th about dark.","Knoxville Dec 10th \nTo Col. Stuart,\nGenl. A . S. Johnston orders that your Regiment remain with Genl. Marshall. \nW. H. Carroll \nBrig. Genl.","Upon the reception of this order I immediately telegraphed the Department to know whose orders I should obey? In the meantime the waggons I had secured for my Regiment were on the way to Pound Gap and I was thus compelled to\ncommence again to prepare transportation for that trip.","I had been quite unwell with jaundice ad the Surgeon finding that we would be compelled to go to Pound Gap told me that he would not answer for the consequences should I undertake to go and advised my return to Richmond, where I have been confined to my room with a severe attack of Rheumatism until within the last ten days. I left the Regiment under command of Lt. Col. Slaughter and I know that the delay in proceeding to join Genl. Marshall arose from no indisposition on his part to execute the orders, but from an absolute inability to procure the necessary transportation.\nThere can be found in the service no officer more active, intelligent and competent to the discharge of the duties of his position. We are anxious if there is the slightest doubt remaining on the mind of the Honl. Sec. as to the want of proper activity on the part of the officer of the Regiment to move forward, that he will order a Court of Inquiry that the matter may be thoroughly sifted.","I have the honor to be \nYour obt. servt. \nWm. D. Stuart, Col. \n56th Va. Regt.","Genl. Hospital \nRichmd. March 4 1862","Wm. T Cross, Private Co. E. 56 Reg. Va. Vols. has been in this hospital since 1 Nov 1861 with Secondary Syphilis. He has now Syphilitic Rheumatism \u0026 as his turn of enlistment will expire in June, I recommend his discharge from the service.","I. Beu. Gibson \nSurg. P. A. C. S. \nRichmond Genl. Hospital","Official business \nWm. D. Stuart \nCol: 56 Regt.","Sir, \nEnclosed please find Certificate of disability for Private W. T. Cross. It must be approved by the Capt. of his Co. \u0026 Col. of the Reg. \u0026 returned to me- at least this is the usual form.","If there is a prospect of obtaining his discharge at once, I would prefer his remaining in the Hospital until it is received here.","Very resp. \nI. B. Gibson \nSurg. P. A. C. S. \nRichmd Genl. Hospital","Richmond Arsenal \nMarch 8th 1862","My Dear Colonel, \nThis will be handed you by my friend Col. W. D Stuart 56 Va. Vols. who is about joining his Regiment, at present attached to your Department. Col. Stuart has by severe sickness been detained from following a career so nobly begun at Bethel.","His health is now sufficiently restored to justify his joining his command. I bespeak for him your kind consideration in advance, because having known him intimately from boyhood to the present time, I declare him to be a \"gentleman and a soldier\", as Lear was a king- \"every inch\".","Your Friend \nBriscoe G. Baldwin \nCapt. Arty. P. [A?] \nCol. W. W. Mackall \nA. A. Genl.","Head Quarters Floyd's Division \nChattanooga, Mar 17th 1862 \nGeneral Order \nNo. 246","The reenlisted men of this command are entitled to a furlough of sixty days at home, but in case of a collision with the enemy at Knoxville this will be suspended for one week.","By order \nBrig. Gen. Floyd \n[C. Derrick] \nA.A. Gen.","Official \n[Mr]Robin Terry \nA.A. A Gen.","Headquarters Floyd's Division \nCamp [? Childress] Mar 17 1862 \nGeneral Orders \nNo. 27 \nExtract","The entire command will move tomorrow morning on the cars in the following order. 1st Headquarters, 2d Artillery, 3d. 1st Brigade, 4th 2d Brigade.","The 1st Brigade will load its baggage on the cars at 9 o'clock in the [trn]-yard just across the bridge arranging so that their baggage or wagons will not be in the way of Head Qrs.","By order Brig. Gen. Floyd \nPeter Otey \nA.A. Gen","Official \nMr. Robbin Terry \nA.A. A Gen.","Head Qrs Floyd Division \nKnoxville, March 19th/62 \nSpecial Orders \nNo--","Having been relieved from my command I hereby turn over the troops under me to the command of Col. Maney commanding forces at Knoxville Tennessee. The commanding officers of Regts will report for duty at once to Col. Maney","By order Brigdr Gen. Floyd \nPeter Otey \nA.A.G.","The Field Officers and officers commanding regiments will report at these HdQrs as soon as practicable. The General desires to introduce these gentlemen to the commanding officer Col. Maney.","By direction \nBrigdr Gen. Floyd \nPeter Otey \nA.A.G.","Head Quarters Knoxville \nMarch 19th 1862","Col. Stuart \nCommnd. 56th Va. Regt.","You will hold your Regt. ready to move at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Send to these Headquarters by 8 ½O'clock tomorrow morning a report of the strength of your command for duty.","Geo. Maury \nCol. Comdg. at Knoxville.","Hd. Quarters Knoxville \n20th March 1862","Colonel \nW. D. Stuart \n56 Va. Regiment","You are hereby directed to take command of all the forces here, formerly of Genl. Floyd's command in the movement towards Jacksboro. Capt. B. W. Snyder Qr. Master will report to you as Qr. Master for your command. He will be furnished with twelve 4 horse wagons for transportation of your command. If this transportation is more than sufficient for the tents, cooking utensils and ammunition necessary for your command you will please direct your commissary, whom you may select from your command, to load the unappropriated wagons with Flour and Bacon for which he will make requisition on the post commissary at this place.","Respectfully, \nGeo. Maney \nCol. Commanding \nForces at Knoxville","Hd Qrs Knoxville Mch 20th/62 \nSpecial Order \nNo--","Col. Stuart will move with his command tomorrow morning at 6 o'clk on the road to Clinton. You will have rations for one day cooked tonight.","By comd of \nCol. George Maney Comdg Post \nR.B. Snowden Adjt.","Head Qrs Knoxville, March 21st 1862 \nSpecial Order No-","Col Stuart \nYou will hold your command, composed of the 36th, 50th, 51st and 56th Regts in readiness to move at 4 o'clk this afternoon towards Jacksboro.","Col. George Maney Comdg Post \nR.B. Snowden Adj't.","Col. Stuart \nI am instructed by Col. Maney to say you will not put your command on the march until further orders. You are however instructed to hold it ready to move at a moment's notice.","R. B. Snowden Adjt. \nKnoxville March 21st 1862","Hd. Quarters Knoxville \nMarch 21st 1862","Col. Stuart \nCommand. of Floyd Brigade","Your order to march toward Clinton is revoked. I desire to see you at my Hd. Quarters in person at first convenient moment to regard to encamping your command here.","Very Respectfully \nGeo. Maney Col. \nCommnd. At Knoxville","Lebanon, 31st March 1862","Col. Stuart, \nOf so much of your order of the 28th as proposes the formation of a camp near Abingdon by the unfurloughed officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates of \"Floyd's Brigade\", I shall express no opinion at this time. I presume your halt at Abingdon, for instructions from Richmond, was in pursuance of your duty under the direction of Major General Smith. I am glad he has force to spare.","The others parts of your order I cheerfully approve and will sustain. I know of no vice so fatal to our soldiery as intemperance; and, independent of the loss of many genial fellows to the cause in which our swords are drawn, their fall is the gain of the meanest and the most heartless men in community. The vigor of authority shall not be wanting on my part to sustain every effort to limit the pernicious vice.","I enclose an Order, which please hand to Maj. Fisher that he may have a few struck off and sent after such of my men as have left Abingdon.","Your vindicatory note has been successful I imagine in proving that you did not delay marching last winter intentionally, but the failure to join me was a great misfortune to this command.","I am ready however to look forward and not backwards, and hope our acquaintance may be as agreeable in its continuance as it has been awkward in its beginning.","Yours Respectfully, \nH. Marshall \nBrig. Genl. Comd.","Apr 1st 1862 \nCol. Stuart","Dear Sir, \nThe bearer of this note Mr. Hanshew is the father of the soldier in the 50th Regt. The young man is at present in hospital and has been quite a sufferer. He was sick in the autumn and before fairly recovered was taken to the west. He was subjected to all the exposure and hardships at Ft. Donelson where he was frost bitten in the trenches. The retreat and long march have proved too much for him and he is really quite worn out. His father wishes to take\nhim home for a few weeks if possible to [illegible] him \u0026 I think it important for the young man to go. I know the father well, he is worthy of trust and is a man of excellent character.","I am sir very truly yours \nJohn B. Floyd","Confederate States of America \nTREASURY DEPARTMENT \nFIRST AUDITOR'S OFFICE \nApr. 8th 1862","Dear Mr. Stuart, \nI think I shall die if I don't manage to get with the Army in some capacity or other, \u0026 as the circumstances of my family do not admit of my going as a private, I must try to obtain some position which will pay. I have not the presumption to ask for a commission in the Infantry or Artillery, where a knowledge of military tactics is essential, but as all the appointments are not made in the Engineers Corps \u0026 for that a knowledge of Mathematics more than anything else is required, I have thought that I might possibly by some study in the meanwhile fit myself for a position in the Engineers. I would not myself have thought such to be the case, but for the assurance of a friend, who is in the Corps \u0026 and after considerable experience says that I am fully capable of filling such a position creditably. The object of my writing this letter therefore is to request that you will give me a testimonial to be presented to the Sec. of War, who would doubtless be influenced by what you say. Possibly with that \u0026 what I may get old Bledsoe, the Asst. Sec. to say for me, I may obtain a Lieutenancy in the Engineers.","If Frank had been successful I would not myself apply, but I suppose his application is pretty securely pigeon holed \u0026 he will never hear from it, though Tom Harris is now in the city \u0026 a member of the Military Committee of Congress.","I saw Aunt F. last night and she and the children are in good spirits, looking forward to visiting you in Abingdon, in accordance with your letter of recent date. Aunt F. was glad to hear of your being so well \u0026 comfortably fixed \u0026 perhaps her cheerfulness is only the reflection from your good spirits, as she learns from your letters \u0026 others who have seen you.","Ma and the children are pleasantly fixed in Danville \u0026 are all very well: Frank was at Orange C. H. when I heard from him, though there is a rumor that his division went down to reinforce Magurder. The sky is brightening. I have not time to write more at present. Hoping to hear from you soon, I remain yours affectionately. \nW.R. Abbott","Abingdon 20th April 1862 \nCol. Stuart","Dear Sir, \nMrs. Saunders, the bearer of this is the mother of the boy who is applying for a discharge on the score of minority. I sent you the certificate, \u0026 c some days ago. I have no doubt of his being under age. She wants to know the conditions of his application. May I ask you to let her know it?","With the highest respect \nYour obd. Servt. \nJohn B. Floyd","Confederate States of America \nWAR DEPARTMENT \nEngineer's Bureau \nRichmond, Va. 30 April 1862","Genl. G. W. Randolph \nSecretary of War","Sir, \nI have had the pleasure of knowing Col. W. D. Stuart for many years. At Lexington where we were cadets together, his peculiar qualifications as a soldier and tactician, on graduating, led to his immediate appointment as assistant instructor of infantry and artillery tactics, a position\nwhich he held with much credit for three years. Since the commencement of the war he has been constantly engaged on active service, first on the Peninsula and afterwards in the West. In the first locality I had the pleasure of again meeting him and heard him uniformly spoken of as a gallant, efficient, and accomplished officer.","In these days of uncertain tenure of office, your endorsement of the substance of this letter would probably be of great service to him, especially as his standing on the Peninsula and conduct in the Battle of Bethel are personally known to you.","With great respect, your obedient servant, \nA. L. Rives \nActing Chf. Eng. Bu.","War Department \nApril 30th 1862","I take great pleasure in bearing the testimony to the gallantry and conduct of Col. Stuart at the Battle of Bethel of which I was an eye witness, and to his efficiency as an officer and his deportment as a gentleman. He is an educated soldier and I should be sorry for the Country to lose his services. \nGeo. W. Randolph","Camp near Winchester, Va. \nOct 26 1862","My dear Colonel: \nI have rec'd your report of the battle of \"South Mountain\" and with it your very kind note.","I can truly assure you I was much gratified with the expressions of regard and esteem you therein expressed towards me. My brief association with you was among the most pleasant I have formed during the war and I sincerely trust it may be renewed at no distant time, under such auspices that we may be able to cultivate a still closer intimacy. With many prayers for you safety and happiness I remain truly your friend \nR. B. Garnett","Provost Marshal's Office \nLynchburg, Va. \nOct 30th 1862 \nCol. W. D. Stuart","Dear Sir, \nI received this morning a letter from one of the 56th Va. Regt. informing me that \"you \u0026 Maj. Green intended to write to the War Department and endeavor if possible to have me relieved of duty here and ordered to return to Regt.\" I at first doubted its authenticity, but seeing it was from a semi-official source I necessarily attached some importance to it.","I was astonished to hear that you contemplated such a thing as it would undoubtedly place me in a false light before the Department. I presumed you had received official notification of my appointment here.","I have always thought you were magnanimous enough not only to be willing for any officer of your Regt. to obtain promotion and a better position, but would aid him if possible in doing so.","I informed you in three letters before that I applied in Sept. last to Q. M. for transportation to Regt. and applying the same day to Adjt. Gen. Cooper in person to ascertain the point to go to, was directed by him to report to Maj. Gen. Smith for duty. By whom I was sent to Brig. Gen. Winder who ordered me to take charge of the C. S. Military Prison. I remained there about three weeks and discharged the duties satisfactorily to my commissioning officer and was on the 21st Oct. appointed \"Provost Marshal\" of this city with written orders from Maj. Gen. G. W. Smith, a copy of which I send you.","Each position was unsolicited and unexpected by me; but at the same time agreeable ad satisfactory; because the \"posts\" I was assigned were not only easier and higher than the Capt. of Infantry, but also horses and servants furnished me, and paid $180 per month. The pay however is no consideration with me. The chances of promotion are still greater in my present position.","I will also state to you, that is I preferred it, I am legally exempt from military duty by the recent \"exemption act\" passed by both \"Houses of Congress\" and approved by the President. First I have a plantation with over 40 negroes, and on it \"no white male adult not liable to military duty.\" Second I have a large manufacturing mill and my superintendence is necessary for its successful operation. For either 1st or 2nd reasons I am exempt by \"Act of Congress\".","But notwithstanding pecuniary losses I am willing to remain in the army, provided my services will accomplish anything in the cause we are engaged.","I hope this will be satisfactory to you. I fear you did not receive my former letters making substantially the same statements as above; and I feel a conscientious sense of duty, in justice to myself to write to you again","The appointment here was somewhat complimentary to me and I have intimations already of a higher and more responsible position being assigned me.","I would be glad if you would answer this.","Very respectfully \nYour obt. Servant \nThomas D. Jeffress \nCapt. and Provost Marshall of Lynchburg","P.S. I understand that only 8 or 10 efficient men of Co. \"G\" are with the Regt. and only about 22 or 23 in all on roll. I left several in Richmond at Hospital who will probably never recover sufficiently to return to duty. \nT. D. J.","18th Va. Regt. \nNov. 26th 1862 \nCol. W. D. Stuart","Col., \nIn reply to your note rec'd some time since asking of the \"mention made\" of Capt. T. D. Jeffress \"upon\" a report of one of the Richmond battles forwarded by myself to Brigade Hd. Qrs., I have to say that Capt. Jeffress made out the report of the battle himself, he being the Senr. Officer present who was in the fight. When the report was handed to me Lt. Chaffin Actg. Adjt. told me that the officers of the Regt. desired that I should make mention of the good conduct of Capt. Jeffress in battle, as the Capt. from motives of delicacy would of course say nothing of himself. I endorsed upon the report that I was not in the battle myself, was not in command of the Regiment at the time the events spoken of occurred, but that at the request of others, I would state that Capt. Jeffress deserved \"honorable mention\" for good conduct in battle. I have since learned that Lt. Chaffin was not in the fight himself and I am sorry that I acted upon his suggestion and made the endorsement referred to for the reason that I appeared to discriminate in favor of Capt. Jeffress when in fact I knew nothing of the conduct of any officer in the Regiment in the battle alluded to.","I am Col. \nVery Respectfully \nGeo. C. Cabell, Major","Camp Near Petersburg \nof Pickett's Div. Garnett's Brig. \nMarch 7th 1863 \nGenl. S. A. Cooper","Sir, \nI respectfully make an application for 25 Conscripts the requisite number to fill the reduced ranks of my Company at its present standard. You will confer a favour by assigning to the ranks of my Company 25 Conscripts,or any number as you, in your judgement may think proper or circumstances may require. You can see by my muster roll that my company only numbers 31 total present or absent, having never received any Conscripts since its entry into\nservice.","Most Respectfully \nYour obedient Servt. \nF. W. Nelson \nLt. Comd. Co. \"A\" 56th Va.","Camp Near Petersburg, Va. \nMarch 7th 1863","I respectfully ask permission to be absent from my duties for a few days for the following reasons. My property has been dwindling away daily since 25th Dec last, for want of my personal attention. My negroes are roaming through the country without a proper home and I will probably lose them all if I cannot attend to the matter immediately. I leave my company in command of the Capt. I have deferred asking leave of absence until now, because of there being only two (2) officers belonging to the company and the comdg. Officer of the Regt. deems it best that the vacancies of 2nd and 2nd jr. Lieuts. should not be filled at present, I presume because of the smallness of the Co. I reenlisted as a private and have never received a furlough or anything in lieu thereof and have never been absent without leave.","S. D. Cronin 1st Lieut. \nCo. \"I\" 56th Va. Regt.","March 8th, 1863","I respectfully ask for a leave of absence for 20 days to visit my home in Mecklenburg Co. Va. having been in the service for 20 months and having never received but four days furlough since the organization of my Regiment. I hope this application will be granted. I was originally a 12 months Volunteer and subsequently reenlisted for the War.","Lieut. F. W. Nelson \nCo. A. 56th Va. Regt.","Kittrell's Springs \nJuly 27th 1863 \nCol. Wm. D. Stuart","Dear Sir, \nI was transferred from General Hospital No. 10 to Black's and White's Hospital, from that place on the recommendation of the Medical Director in Richmond (Dr. Wm. Carrington) I was allowed the privilege of going home and report once in fifteen days in person or through my Physician's certificate. My furlough was extended the other day, 30 days to enable me to visit\nthe Springs for my health. I am improving very rapidly mow and shall be on, as soon as I am able for duty. You have passed though a very fiery ordeal since I left you. I regret being absent from my company in time of battle. I am truly sorry to learn that you are wounded, hope it will not prove serious, and allow me here to indulge the hope that you will be Genl. Garrett's successor. You certainly deserve the place. I am very anxious to hear from my company. I heard indirectly that Lieut. Finley was wounded, whether seriously or not I did not learn. Pickett's Division was very badly cut up. The mortality among officers was unprecedented. I expect to be here at least two weeks longer. I wish to get entirely well before returning. When I return again I hope to be able to stay with you. Direct your letter to \"Lawrenceville. Brunswick Co. Va.\" With my best wishes that you may speedily recover and when I see you again you may be my Brigadier. I subscribe myself your true friend, \nN. A. Flournoy","The bulk of the William D. Stuart papers consists of the Civil War papers (60 items; 1861-1863) of Stuart. The papers contain:\n Correspondence to and from various Confederate Army officers Morning and guard reports Military orders Invoices and receipts documenting Stuart's brief service with the 15th Virginia Infantry Regiment and his command of the 56th Virginia Infantry Regiment \nOther items include letters of recommendation for a United\nStates Army Commission (1850), a letter from Gabriel Jordan, Jr. (VMI Class of 1850) dated November 1854, and printed material.","Written from VMI, Lexington, Virginia. Letter endorses William D. Stuart's application for a commission in the United States Army.","Written from VMI, Lexington, Virginia. Letter endorses William D. Stuart's application for a commission in the United States Army.","Written from VMI, Lexington, Virginia. Letter endorses William D. Stuart's application for a commission in the United States Army.","Written from Huntsville, Alabama. Letter comments on respective marriages, jobs, and future prospects.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Letter asks Virginia Governor John Letcher for an appointment in the Army in the event of secession.","Special Order No. 81 from Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart is assigned to duty with troops at the camp of instruction.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Letter expresses regret at William D. Stuart's resignation as commanding officer of the Richmond City Guard.","Written from the Camp of Instruction, Richmond. Letter to an unidentified colonel regards the placement of William D. Stuart and other officers.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Letter regards materials to make a tent.","Written from Williamsburg, Virginia. Letter orders William D. Stuart to work on fortifications at King's Mill.","Special Order No. 222 from Youngs Farm. Regards payment of troops and powers of attorney. By command of General Magruder and signed by G. B. Cosby, A.A.A.G.","Special Order No. 280 from the Adjutant Inspector General's office, Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart is promoted and assigned to the command of the 56th Virginia Regiment.","Written from Camp Lee. Letter regards a flag for William D. Stuart's regiment.","Special Order No. 232 from Richmond, Virginia by command of Secretary of War per John Withers. The 56th Virginia Infantry regiment is ordered to Jeffersonville, Virginia to report to Brigadier General Marshall.","Written from Pound Gap, Virginia. William D. Stuart is ordered to move his regiment forward by Pound Gap towards Prestonsburg, Kentucky.","Written from Wytheville, Virginia. Telegram regards wagons.","Written from Wytheville, Virginia. Letter regards transportation vouchers.","Written from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart's regiment is ordered to Nashville, Tennessee.","Written from Knoxville, Tennessee. General A. S. Johnson orders William D. Stuart's regiment to remain with General Marshall.","From Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart's regiment is to proceed to Pound Gap to report to General Marshall.","Special Order No. 8 from Headquarters 1st Brigade, Army of Eastern Kentucky, Camp near Paintville, by order of General Marshall. William D. Stuart's regiment is to move immediately without further delay.","Written from Paintville, Kentucky. William D. Stuart must move his regiment without delay.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart is directed by the Secretary of War to report to General Marshall.","Written from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter concerns orders to go to Pound Gap, Virginia.","Written from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter regards contradictory orders and illness of William D. Stuart and men.","Written from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter reprts on sickness of regiment and men in hospital.","Special Order No. 1 from Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart's regiment\nis detached from General Marshall's command and will proceed to Bowling Green, Kentucky to General A. S. Johnston.","Written from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter regards order to proceed to Bowling Green, Kentucky. Letter also encloses Special Order No. 1 (dated January 2, 1862).","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Letter regards confusion in orders to 56th Virginia Infantry Regiment.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Letter regards William T. Cross' certificate of disability.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Letter regards William D. Stuart rejoining his regiment after a severe illness.","General Order No. 246 from Floyd's Division, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Reenlisted men are entitled to a 60 day furlough, but this may be suspended in case of \"collision with the enemy.\"","General Order No. 27 (extract) from Floyd's Division, Camp Bettie Childress. Order regards movement of the command via rail.","Special Order from Floyd's Division, Knoxville, Tennessee. General Floyd is relieved of command and regimental commanders are to report to Colonel George Maney.","Written from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is to hold his regiment ready to move and to report on the strength of his command.","Written from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is directed to \"take command of all the forces here, formerly of Genl Floyd's command, in the movement towards Jacksboro.\"","Special order from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is to move tomorrow on the road to Clinton.","Special Order from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is to hold command of the 36th, 50th, 51st and 56th Virginia Regiments in readiness to move towards Jacksboro.","Written from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is not to move his command until further orders.","Written from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart march towards Clinton is revoked.","Written from Lebanon. Letter regards previous orders.","Letter regards releasing a sick soldier (Hanshew, 50th Virginia Regiment) to go home with his father.","Letter requests recommendation to enter the Confederate Army and family news.","Written from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter regards discharge of an underage soldier.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Letter commends William D. Stuart, with an endorsement specifically about his gallantry at the Battle of Bethel, Virginia.","Written from Winchester, Virginia. Letter acknowledges receipt of report of Battle of South Mountain (Maryland) and expresses personal regard.","Written from Lynchburg, Virginia. Letter protests Thomas D. Jeffress' return to the Regiment.","Letter regards a report in which George C. Cabell erroneously commended Captain Thomas D. Jeffress.","Written from Petersburg, Virginia. Letter requests 25 conscripts to fill reduced ranks.","Written from Petersburg, Virginia. Letter requests to be absent from duty to see to business at home.","Letter requests a leave of absence to visit home.","Written from Kittrell's Springs, North Carolina. This letter was written after the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and it comments on casualties in regiment and general news.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Telegram regards search of trains for stolen coffee.","Report for the 56th Virginia Regiment at Camp Robertson.","Report for the 56th Virginia Regiment at Camp Robertson.","Special duty roster for the 56th Virginia Regiment.","Guard report for the 56th Virginia Regiment.","Receipt for wall tent pins and poles.","Receipt for ordnance (cartridges).","Invoice of commutation of quarters and fuel for 1st Lieutenant George W. May, Company C. 56th Virginia, for the period of December 8 to 31, 1861.","Invoice of commutation of quarters and fuel for 1st Lieutenant George W. May, Company C. 56th Virginia, for the period of January 1 to 31, 1862.","Receipt for wall tents.","Two receipts for muskets and cartridge boxes.","Receipt for clothing.","Receipt for commissary stores.","This series includes a draft of a speech given upon presentation of a flag to the 56th Virginia Infantry Regiment, court-martial specifications, and other documents.","This series includes programs and other documents from Roanoke, Virginia area camps.","Manuscript collections in the VMI Archives are made available for educational and research use. The VMI Archives should be cited as the source. The user assumes all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any copyright holders. Materials from our collections may not be redistributed, published or reproduced without permission from the VMI Archives. Contact the VMI Archives for additional information.","Manuscripts stacks","Virginia Military Institute Archives","Stuart, William D. (William Dabney), 1830-1863","Smith, Francis H. 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He was mortally wounded at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania during Pickett's Charge, and died in a hospital in Staunton on July 29, 1863.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["William Dabney Stuart was born on September 30, 1830 in Staunton, Virginia to Thomas Jefferson Stuart and Martha M. Dabney. He did preparatory work at the Staunton Academy and then entered VMI in July 1847. Stuart graduated from VMI in July 1850, standing 3rd in a class of 17.","Following graduation he taught at VMI (1850-1853) and was subsequently a principal of classical schools in Washington D.C. and Richmond, Virginia. He married Frances Harris of Loudon County, Virginia and the couple had three children: Martha, Mary Bell, and William.","During the Civil War, Stuart briefly commanded the 15th Virginia Infantry Regiment, and was then appointed Colonel with the 56th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Confederate States Army. He was mortally wounded at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania during Pickett's Charge, and died in a hospital in Staunton on July 29, 1863."],"custodhist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe William D. Stuart papers were originally in the possession of Stuart's widow and were passed down through the family before being donated to VMI.\u003c/p\u003e"],"custodhist_heading_ssm":["Provenance"],"custodhist_tesim":["The William D. Stuart papers were originally in the possession of Stuart's widow and were passed down through the family before being donated to VMI."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eVirginia Military Institute\u003cbr\u003e\nDecember 3 1850\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMy dear sir\u003cbr\u003e\nHaving understood that Mr. W. D. Stuart is an applicant for a commission in the U.S. Army I take the liberty of addressing you a private note on his behalf. I do this in preference to the formal course of a recommendation, because you will be better able to appreciate what I may\nsay in the unreserved mode in which I write.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYou are aware that Mr. S. entered this Institution as a cadet in July 1847. After completing the whole course of studies, he was graduated in July last with great credit. You will see by the accompanying merit roll that in all his classes he maintained a most respectable standing, while in Geology, Artillery, and Infantry Tactics, he was No. 1. And in Military Engineering 3rd.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to these facts, he was a commissioned officer of the Corps of Cadets and gave great satisfaction to us in the manner in which he discharged his duties.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSo high was our estimate of his talents as a scholar and qualifications as an officer, that on a vacancy in our Corps of Instructors occurring in July, he was selected as an assistant Professor of Math. And assistant Instructor of Tactics and has been discharging these duties with great credit up to the present time.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFrom my personal knowledge of the qualifications of an officer of the Army, I know that there are few young men who enter the Service from West Point who are better qualified than Stuart and I have no doubt he will make as fine an officer as can be selected for the Infantry arm of\nthe Service.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYou know his moral qualifications as well as I do. If any doubt had existed on this point, he would never have been appointed an officer in this Institution.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ehope it will be the pleasure of the President to confer an appointment upon Mr. Stuart.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis Institution has been laboring now for 11 years in building up its Military reputation and we should like to have an opportunity of comparing our graduates with those from West Point.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWith cordial regards to Mrs. S.\u003cbr\u003e\nI am very truly your friend\u003cbr\u003e\nFrancis H. Smith\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHon. A. H. H. Stuart\nWashington City\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVa. Military Institute\u003cbr\u003e\nDec 10th 1850\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMr. W.D. Stuart desires to obtain a commision in the U.S. Army. His present post, that of Asst. Instructor of Tactics in the Va. Military Institute is evidence of his peculiar fitness for command. His acquirements at the Insititute of which he is a graduate, embracing Engineering, Artillery, and Infantry Tactics, with Mathematics and the Natural Sciences were such as to induce the authorities of the Institute to select him from her many graduates for the very responsible situation he now holds, a situation which requires judgement, firmness and decision of Character- all of which Mr. Stuart possesses in a high degree. His uniformily gentlemanly\ndeportment has endeared him to his fellow officers and will make him grace the position he seeks.\u003cbr\u003e\nThomas. H. Williamson\u003cbr\u003e\nProf. Engr. \u0026amp; Arch.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVMI\u003cbr\u003e\nDecember 10, 1850\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eW. Stuart was appointed immediately after his graduation Assistant Instructor of Tactics in the Virginia Military Institute. This is the highest and most indubitable testimony of the estimate of his military qualifications, by those who know him best. The course of military instruction and discipline at the Institute conforms strictly to that of the U.S.A. at West Point and is conducted by graduates of the latter Institution. If from a jealous regard to the character of the Army, the\nGovernment ordinarily restricts its commissions to the graduates of West Point, the same principle might well incline it, in its exceptional appointment of citizens, to feel a preference for those, who like Mr. Stuart, have at a State Institution, thoroughly prepared themselves for the Military Profession.\u003cbr\u003e\nJohn T.L. Preston\u003cbr\u003e\nProf. V.M.I\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEngineers Office\u003cbr\u003e\nMemphis and Charleston Railroad\u003cbr\u003e\nHuntsville\u003cbr\u003e\nNovember 22d 1854\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMy Dear Stuart,\u003cbr\u003e\nI have just stolen away from my wife and have run up to my office with the determination of writing you. I was not a little surprised to learn through your letter that you had written me. Your letter, which reached me about ten days ago was the only one I have received from you since your marriage. I wrote you at that particularly interesting time a note of congratulations, as well as a letter, just before your mariage, but have received no letter in return. Now my good fellow I have no doubt but what you think that you wrote me, but as for my part I am inclined to think that you did not. I am sure I should not think it strange if you had not for you are a newly married man, and as a matter of course can not afford to give your friends many thoughts, at least for a while.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIt is really refreshing, my old friend to hear from you and especially to know that you are a married man and in the full enjoyment of the pleasures that attend married love. My wife returned from Virginia about the first of September with much improved health---and my boy is a most magnificent fellow. A look at him might be of some service to you. Don't blush my dear fellow I don't mean any thing.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDabney, what under the sun has become of all of our class mates. You are living in the center of our great union and should be posted up on every thing. I never see the names of any of our class in the papers, nor do I ever correspond with any of them, hence I am utterly ignorant of their movements. I never any thing from Lexington since you left there. Have any of our old acquaintances married off since our days-.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMatters here are still wearing a pleasant and flattering aspect. Our road is moving on finely, and we trust ere many more months pass away, that we will have a large and important portion of our work finished. I wish that we had a good comfortable post to offer you here. We are finishing up so fast that we are reducing the Corps instead of increasing. Still, should you ever make up your mind to embark in the profession, we might look out for a post for you.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYour school I trust will for the present afford you a comfortable competency, and something besides. School teaching, like every thing else has its reverses, its calms and its storms. We can find no profession that is made up entirely of sunshine. We must expect the life of man to harmonize with nature, having its passing clouds and refreshing sunshine in equal turns. I with all my hopeful temperament, have had my moments of gloom and anxiety, but with a fond wife, no less hopeful than myself, to cheer me, I have faced all and am now full of bright anticipation. Nor does this come about from any fortune, or particular promises, but all from a conviction that there is room for everyone in this world and plenty for everyone to do, and that industry when ever it is found is in the course of time rewarded. This is an unusually difficult time with almost everyone. There seems to be a weariness in the money market in every quarter. Men experience great difficulty in meeting their general expenses. This state of affairs, I have no doubt has had its influence upon your school, and I feel assured that there will be an improvement after a little while. I hope my dear Stuart, that you will continue to keep me posted up in regard to your movements, for I may find a good offering out South that would please you, and if such should be the case, it would give me inexpressible pleasure to serve you. I will always be on the look out. A new country is better for a young man in any profession. The competition is not so great and pay better. Present me the kindest manner to your good wife and receive the renewed assurance of your old and sincere friend and classmate.\u003cbr\u003e\nGabe Jordan Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichmond, Va.\u003cbr\u003e\nApril 15th 1861\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGov. Letcher\u003cbr\u003e\nDear Sir,\u003cbr\u003e\nI enclose recommendations from the Authorities of the Va. Military Institute to the Secretary of War under Mr. Fillmore for an appointment in the U.S. Army at that time. I submit them to you in my own behalf for an appointment under the State of Va. in the event of her secession from\nthe present Federal Government. I desire an appointment to any position in which my services may be required the most valuable, either in the active duties of the field or otherwise.\u003cbr\u003e\nVery respectfully yours,\u003cbr\u003e\nWm. D. Stuart\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHead Qrs Va Forces\u003cbr\u003e\nRichmond Va. May 20 1861\u003cbr\u003e\nSpecial Orders\u003cbr\u003e\nNo 82\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCol. T.P. August, Lt. Col. W.D. Stuart, and Major Thos. G. Peyton, Virginia Vols, are assigned to duty with the troops at the \"Camp of Instruction\" and will report without delay to Col. William Gilham commanding that post.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy order of Maj. Genl Lee\u003cbr\u003e\nR. Garnett\u003cbr\u003e\nAdjt Genl.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichmond\u003cbr\u003e\nMay 21st 1861\u003cbr\u003e\nCapt. W. D. Stuart\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDear Sir,\u003cbr\u003e\nAt a meeting of the Richmond City Guard held this evening, the undersigned were appointed a Committee to express to you the unfeigned regret of the Company on having read your resignation, and to tender you the sincere thanks of the Company for the faithfulness and efficiency with which you have discharged the duties of Commanding Officer.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWhile the Company deplores deeply the necessity which separates you from us, we rejoice to know that our Beloved State will have the benefit of your valuable services.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePermit us personally and on behalf of the Company to tender you our best wishes for your future happiness and prosperity.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eVery truly your friends,\u003cbr\u003e\nDavis N. Walker\u003cbr\u003e\nSamuel M. Bailey\u003cbr\u003e\nJames E. Burress\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnofficial\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCamp of Instruction\u003cbr\u003e\nMay 23rd\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMy dear Col.\u003cbr\u003e\nWhen three field officers were assigned to duty here, I was so green as to put each in command of a Regt., having no other officers who knew any thing about organizing a Regt. This arrangement does not seem to have suited Col. August, who has been complaining to the powers that be, and I have received an order directing me to assign them all to one Regt--that of Col. August of course. Col. Stuart is one of them, and is totally unprepared for the field; he will make application to Gen. Fauntleroy this evening for a few days, please see what you can do for him. Gen. F. though may not have him in his Divn, if so he will have to go to Col. Magruder of course.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYours sincerely\u003cbr\u003e\nW. Gilham\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichmond\u003cbr\u003e\nJuly 5th 1861\u003cbr\u003e\nLt. Col. Stewart [Stuart]\u003cbr\u003e\n3rd Regt. Va. Vols.\u003cbr\u003e\nYorktown\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDear Sir,\u003cbr\u003e\nSometime, about the latter part of May or the commencement of June your lady Mrs. Stewart in company with Mrs. Lucy Wharton called at my Office in order to procure material for the purpose of making you a tent as they were unable to get a tent allready made: and stated that you were without one. Under these circumstances, I furnished the necessary material with the consent of Col. Heth the then Q.M. General who instructed me to take your receipt for one tent. The receipt has been delayed from various causes, partly because I did not know the address of Mrs. Stewart or yourself. Should you receive this letter I would be much obliged that you sign and return me the enclosed receipt; by your prompt attention to wit you will much oblige.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYours very respectfully,\u003cbr\u003e\nMaury Garland\u003cbr\u003e\nCapt. and Asst. Q. M.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHead Quarters Williamsburg\u003cbr\u003e\nJuly 25th 1861\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCol.,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe General having understood that Colonel August is unwell. He directs that you will urge with the greatest vigor the work on the Fortification at King's Mill. In order to do this you will have but one drill a day in the evening. The working hours will be from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. and from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. The guns to place in the various works are now on the way here and it is specially desired to have the works ready for them at the earliest moment.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI am sir very respectfully\u003cbr\u003e\nYour obedient servant\u003cbr\u003e\nG. B. Cosby\u003cbr\u003e\nMaj. and AAAG\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdjutant Inspr Genl's Office\u003cbr\u003e\nRichmond\u003cbr\u003e\nSept 17th 1861\u003cbr\u003e\nExtract\u003cbr\u003e\nSpecial Orders\u003cbr\u003e\nNo. 280\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eXI. Lieut Colonel William D. Stuart Virginia Volunteers is promoted to be Colonel and assigned to the Command of the 56th Virginia Regiment just organized at Camp Lee, near this city, andwill report accordingly.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy order of the Secretary of War\u003cbr\u003e\n[Geo. Deas]\u003cbr\u003e\nA.A.G.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCamp Lee\u003cbr\u003e\nNov. 15th 1861\u003cbr\u003e\nCol. George W. Munford\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSir\u003cbr\u003e\nI had the honor receive at the hands of Col. S. Bassett French the Flag of Va. intended for the Regiment I have the honor to command, also the accompanying letter of presentation from you.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAs the commanding officer of the Regt. and its organ upon this occasion, I need not assure you that I received it with pride and satisfaction. Regarding it as the emblem of the honor and purity of our Mother State, hitherto unsullied in Council or War it shall be carefully guarded that it receive no detriment at the hands of the Regiment to which you have confided. I think I can with all safety assure you, and that the Sons of Va., voluntarily of the 56th Va. Regt. will ever be found at their post of duty and that they will never do discredit to the sacred cause in which they have enlisted.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Daughters of Va. whose fair hands have wrought this beautiful emblem of Va.'s honor, will never have cause to blush for shame at the conduct of their brothers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI am very respectfully\u003cbr\u003e\nYour obedient servant\u003cbr\u003e\nWilliam D. Stuart, Col.\u003cbr\u003e\nCommanding 56th Va. Regt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdjt and Insp Genls Office\u003cbr\u003e\nRichmond, Nov 21st 1861\u003cbr\u003e\nExtract\u003cbr\u003e\nSpecial Orders\u003cbr\u003e\nNo 232\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eXI. The 56th Regiment Virginia Volunteers, Col. Stuart Commanding, will proceed without delay, via Wytheville, to Jeffersonville, VA. and report for duty to Brig. Genl. Marshall.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy Command of the Sec. of War\u003cbr\u003e\nJno. Withers\u003cbr\u003e\nAsst. Adjt. Genl.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHead Quarters Brigade\u003cbr\u003e\nPound Gap\u003cbr\u003e\n1 Dec 1861\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCol. Stuart,\u003cbr\u003e\nSir,\u003cbr\u003e\nIn reply to your note reporting your command to me, I direct that you move your regiment forward by Pound Gap towards Prestonburg in Kentucky, as soon as possible after the reception of the order, unless you should receive other directions from Maj. Genl. George B. Crittenden at Knoxville.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI am sir,\u003cbr\u003e\nYour obedient servant,\u003cbr\u003e\nHumphrey Marshall\u003cbr\u003e\nBrig. Genl.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome of the wagoners I hired and started left the teams on the road. I am compelled to go to Abingdon by private conveyance ad will purchase some waggons \u0026amp; c by the way and hire other wagoners.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eW. Gibboney\u003cbr\u003e\nA. Q. M.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransportation Office C.S.A\u003cbr\u003e\nWytheville, Va. December 2nd 1861\u003cbr\u003e\nCol. W. D. Stuart\u003cbr\u003e\nCom. 56th Regt. Va. Vols.\u003cbr\u003e\nAbingdon Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eColonel,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Frt. Agt. of the Va. and Tenn. R. R. has requested me to give him vouchers for the transportation of the stores in the Train which accompanied that containing your Regiment from Wytheville to Abigdon and allso for the baggage of the Regiment.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWill you please inform me whether you have already provided receipt for the transportation and whether the baggage was entitled to transportable from government. I have the honor to be\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eVery Respectfully\u003cbr\u003e\nYour obedient servant\u003cbr\u003e\nA. Meade Smith\u003cbr\u003e\nCapt. \u0026amp; [Acting] QM CSA\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHd. Qts. Knoxville, Tenn\u003cbr\u003e\nDec. 5th 1861\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTo-\u003cbr\u003e\nCol. Stuart\u003cbr\u003e\nCommd. 56th Regt. Va. Vols.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYou will move with your Regiment as soon as transportation can be furnished to you, to Nashville Tenn.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy Command of\u003cbr\u003e\nMaj. Genl. G. B. Crittenden\u003cbr\u003e\nA.S. Cunningham\u003cbr\u003e\nA.A. Genl.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived at: Abingdon Dec 10 1861\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy Telegraph from: Knoxville Dec 10\u003cbr\u003e\nTo: Col. Stuart\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGenl. Johnson orders that your Regiment remain with Genl. Marshall W. H. Carroll\u003cbr\u003e\nBrig. Genl.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived at: Abingdon Dec 11 1861\u003cbr\u003e\nBy Telegraph from: Richmond Dec 11\u003cbr\u003e\nTo: Col. W. D. Stuart\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eProceed with your Regiment to Pound Gap and report to Genl. Marshall. The Quarter Masters Dept. is ordered to furnish transportation.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eS. Cooper\u003cbr\u003e\nA. G.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHeadquarters 1st Brigade\u003cbr\u003e\nArmy of Eastern Ky.\u003cbr\u003e\nCamp near Paintville\u003cbr\u003e\nDec 21st 1861\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSpecial Order\u003cbr\u003e\nNo. 8\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCol. Stuart is directed to move his Regiment from Abingdon immediately with such transportation as can be procured. It is of the first importance to the safety and success of the command on this frontier that the reinforcements destined for the forces already here shall move to the front without delay. Fine opportunities for brilliant successes have been lost for want of their presence ad others are daily passing away. The weather has favored the\nmovement of the troops, but has not been taken at advantage. The General directs that the movement be commenced without further delay and that the passage of the troops over Pound Gap be notified to him by the returning courier.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy order of\u003cbr\u003e\nBrig. Genl. H. Marshall\u003cbr\u003e\nAtt. B. H. Bradley\u003cbr\u003e\nA. Adjt. Genl.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1861 December 22\u003cbr\u003e\nPaintsville, KY 22nd Dec.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCol. Stuart,\u003cbr\u003e\nI send express to you to move your regiment without delay. I am before a force so much superior to me in number, according to the report of reliable scouts, that I can scarcely hope to avoid a collision-- it may be disastrous to us- until you arrive.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIf there are any forces near your route who are disengaged I would like exceedingly to have them assist me now. I am here with a force not amounting to 1500 men fit for duty. I shall struggle to keep off the evil day as long possible for you to arrive.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYours truly \u0026amp; c\u003cbr\u003e\nH. Marshall\u003cbr\u003e\nBrig. Genl.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e[note on back]\u003cbr\u003e\nPress transportation any where you can, if it is not ready, but travel lightly for the roads are deep. H.M.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdj. [\u0026amp;] Inspect. Genl's Office\u003cbr\u003e\nRichmond Dec 24/61\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSir,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Secretary of War directs that you immediately proceed to carry out the instructions referred to in your comn of the 23rd inst. by reporting, with all your effective force, for duty to Brig. General Marshall, making proper provisions for your sick at Abingdon.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eVery Respectfully\u003cbr\u003e\nYour Obd. Servt.\u003cbr\u003e\nR. H. Chilton\u003cbr\u003e\nA. Genl.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLt. Col. Philip P. Slaughter\u003cbr\u003e\nOr/ Commanding Officer\u003cbr\u003e\n56 Reg. Va. Vols.\u003cbr\u003e\nAbingdon , Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbingdon (Va) Dec 27th 1861\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTo-\u003cbr\u003e\nCol. Wm. D Stuart\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDear Sir:\u003cbr\u003e\nSince my arrival I have received orders to go immediately to Pound Gap from both the Sec. of War and Gen. Marshall. The order from Gen. M is both peremptory and urgent, and it is asource of the greatest mortification to me to find that, at so critical a juncture we are totally impotent, and I much fear (\"entre nous\") our reputation may suffer in the mind of the public\nwho cannot be aware of the embarrassing circumstances by which we are surrounded. I think it would be well if you could represent us in our true colors to the War Dept. Genl. M. writes that he is threatened by a superior force and urges our immediate movement which I am unable to comply with, not having more than eight or nine waggons and no horses. At the very earliest moment possible I will move on to Pound Gap with the fragment of the Regt.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFrom what I have learned since writing the above, the opinion prevails in Richmond that the Regt. declined transportation on account of the \"onerous march across the mountains\". You can judge of the correctness of this statement. Such seems to be the prevailing opinion in the War. Dept. Can you do any thing for us? I am in the worst quandary I ever was in my life.\nPlease telegraph me at your earliest convenience.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI think a court of inquiry would be beneficial to us: at all events, it could not injure us.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYours very respectfully\u003cbr\u003e\nP. P. Slaughter\u003cbr\u003e\nFavor of\u003cbr\u003e\nCapt. R. B. Patterson\u003cbr\u003e\nQ.M.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eP. S.\u003cbr\u003e\nI enclose you Genl. Marshall's orders, that you may see how we stand. I retain a copy of them. You will also find enclosed, the order from War Dept. P. P. S.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbingdon Dec. 27th 1861\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTo-\u003cbr\u003e\nBrig. Gen. Marshall\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSir,\u003cbr\u003e\nI am in receipt of your order of the 22nd inst. as well as your Special Order No. 8. It is a source of exceeding regret and much mortification to me, to find myself in so crippled a condition at such a critical junction. Twice since being here I have prepared transportation in accordance with orders, once to join your command, which, when I got ready, I was compelled to decline by an order from Gen. Crittenden \"to go immediately to Nashville and report to Gen. A. S. Johnston. I then went to work to get transportation by rail, to Nashville, which I after some days effected. My men were at the Depot ready to march on the cars, when I received a telegram to remain and go with you; since which time I have not been able to collect the necessary No. of waggons to convey the Regt. in obedience to orders.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Regt. is reduced lower than one half its original size, and is at present in a very debilitated condition. Col. Stuart, by reason of sickness has not been able to take command of the Regt. since leaving Richmond. Maj. Green is absent, all of which combine to place me in a very unenviable position upon the receipt of your orders.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAs to the matter of transportation, I have only eight or ten wagons and no horses, as the Quartermaster informs me.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI shall endeavor to the utmost of my ability to move at the earliest time possible and most sincerely hope I may be able to join you in season to render some assistance in the existing emergency.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis will be handed to you by Capt. T. Smith of the 56th Regt. in whom you can place all confidence.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI did not see your courier or I should have dispatched by him. He left before I could reach the village.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI am sir very respectfully\u003cbr\u003e\nYour obt. Servt.\u003cbr\u003e\nPhilip P. Slaughter\u003cbr\u003e\nLt. Col. Comd. 56th Va. Regt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbigdon, Va. Dec 27th 1861\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDear Colonel,\u003cbr\u003e\n'Tis said and I more than partly believe that we are to move to Marshall's Command per Pound Gap and that in some what of a hurry. Your command is worse off in the matter of sick men than when you left. There are forty men in the Hospital and the number would be greater in there were room. The number of sick men in camp and private houses is hardly to be believed,\nbut I think I am in bounds when I say that if 250 men rank and file are able to march now, 'tis more than I expect. But 'tis hardly friendly to trouble you with such things so I'll only say that we \"what can go\" are going and no mistake. I hear you have some idea of joining us immediately. Don't hurry unless you are really strong enough; for I know your impetuosity of old.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn great haste\u003cbr\u003e\nM. Howard\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdjt and Inspr. Genl's Office\u003cbr\u003e\nRichmond, Jany 2 1862\u003cbr\u003e\nExtract\u003cbr\u003e\nSpecial Order\u003cbr\u003e\nNo. 1\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eColonel Stuart's 56th Regiment Virginia Volunteers is detached from General Humphrey Marshall's Command and will immediately proceed to Bowling Green Kentucky and report to General A.S. Johnston for duty with General Floyds Brigade.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy Command of the Secretary of War\u003cbr\u003e\nJohn Withers\u003cbr\u003e\nAsst. Adjt Genl.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbingdon (Va) Jan. 4th 1862\u003cbr\u003e\nCol. Wm. D. Stuart\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDear Sir,\u003cbr\u003e\nOn yesterday, I received from Captain Patteson the following telegram. \"Col. Stuart says, leave Jacob and his baggage\". The dispatch said nothing of the horse. I was in much doubt about him. Before determining, I mentioned the matter to Dr. Howard, who by the way, has been confined to his bed for a week, \u0026amp; is unable to proceed with the Regt. and intends keeping his horse with him. After reading the telegram, he advised me to leave your horse in care of Jacob. All your baggage, that is, all I imagine was meant, consisting of a horse, saddle \u0026amp; bridle, sword, bed, trunk, field glasses, canteen, etc. I turned over to Mr. Benham, saw them placed together in a room and showed them to Jacob.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSix companies of the Regt. have gone in under command of Capt. Boswell. The others will go tonight. I am much afraid we may be detained somewhat at Union, the first burnt bridge; but our great object is to get away as fast as possible from the road to Pound Gap. I will send you a copy of the order from the Sec of War.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eJacob, during our troubles has been invaluable to me; indeed, while attending to my immensible duties, I think I would have starved but for his providing hand \u0026amp; it is almost certain I would have lost everything I have, but for his care. I envy you very much the possession of so valuable \u0026amp; reliable a servant.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI told him he would either keep his horse in the Quartermaster's stables or at Mr. Benham's. In case I misinterpreted your wishes concerning him, and you should desire him to be sent on, write to Dr. Howard, who expects to carry his own, \u0026amp; it will be as easy to carry two as one. Should you adopt this suggestion, you had better write immediately.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eJacob desires me to say he is tolerable well and would like to hear from you as soon as convenient to know what course he is to pursue.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMaj. Green has not returned as yet. Two of Capt. Richardson's men deserted last night. I think we have some thirty sick in the hospital.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHoping this may find you rapidly recovering and that you are able to rejoin us speedily.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI am sir, very respectfully\u003cbr\u003e\nP. P. Slaughter\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e[on back]\nCopy of Order from Sec. Of War\u003cbr\u003e\nExtract\u003cbr\u003e\nAdj. \u0026amp; Inspect. Genl's Office\u003cbr\u003e\nRichmond Jan 2th 1862\u003cbr\u003e\nSpecial Order\u003cbr\u003e\nNo. 1:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eXV. Colonel Stuart's 56th Regt. Virginia Volunteers, is detached from General Humphrey Marshall's Command and will immediately proceed to Bowling Green, Kentucky and report to General A. S. Johnston for duty with General Floyd's Brigade.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy Command of the Secretary of War\u003cbr\u003e\nJno. Withers\u003cbr\u003e\nAsst. Adjt. Genl. Col. 56th Va. Vols.\u003cbr\u003e\nTo\u003cbr\u003e\nCommanding Officer C. S. Forces\u003cbr\u003e\nAbingdon Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichmond, Va.\u003cbr\u003e\nFeb 5th 62\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGenl. Cooper,\u003cbr\u003e\nSir,\u003cbr\u003e\nI beg leave to submit he following statement to the Department in refutation of the report, circulated I understand at the Head Qrs. by the Brigade Quartermaster of Genl. Humphrey Marshall's, to the effect that I had refused transportation for my command, from Abingdon to Prestonsburg the point to which I was ordered by Genl. Marshall. The enclosed letter written at\nthe time to the Department has bearing upon this point. The following is a literal copy of the order from Genl. Marshall by my messenger Capt. Taylor sent to inquire to which point I should march.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHead Quarters Brigade\u003cbr\u003e\nPound Gap 1 Dec 1861\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCol. Stuart,\u003cbr\u003e\nSir,\u003cbr\u003e\nIn reply to your note reporting your command to me, I direct that you move your regiment forward by Pound Gap towards Prestonsburg in Kentucky, as soon as possible after the reception of this order, unless you should receive directions from Major Genl. George B. Crittenden at Knoxville.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI am sir\u003cbr\u003e\nYour Obt. Servt.\u003cbr\u003e\nHumphrey Marshall\u003cbr\u003e\nBrig. Genl.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis order was received late at night and a verbal message by Capt. Taylor that a messenger had been sent to Genl. Crittenden to inform him of my presence in Abingdon and that he should write order me to join him if necessary. Not hearing from Genl. Crittenden in forty-eight hours after, I sent Lieut. Col. Slaughter to Knoxville to find out from him at once whether I should expect orders from him and he replied by Telegraph through Capt. Cunningham his A. A. Genl.ordering me to Nashville \u0026amp; Col. Slaughter returned the following day bringing the following order by which this is an exact copy.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHd. Qrs. Knoxville Tenn.\u003cbr\u003e\nDec. 5th 1861\u003cbr\u003e\nTo Col Stuart\u003cbr\u003e\nCommand. 56th Regt. Va. Vols.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSir,\u003cbr\u003e\nYou will move with your Regiment as soon as transportation can be furnished to Nashville, Tenn.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy Command of\u003cbr\u003e\nMaj. Genl. G. B. Crittenden\u003cbr\u003e\nS. Cunningham A.Genl.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe interval between the reception of these orders was employed by me busily in attempting to procure transportation and finding no Quarter Master at Abingdon, I sent to Wytheville for Capt. Gibboney A. Q. M. at that point to report at Abingdon and assist me. My own QuarterMaster was without funds for that purpose. Capt. Gibboney arrived bringing with him waggons purchased on the road and by the time of the reception of the order from Genl. Crittenden, I had enough transportation on hand, by leaving some articles behind to enable me to reach Prestonsburg. Of course after the order of Genl. Crittenden, I had no use for the waggons and ordered them immediately to be loaded with supplies of ordnance and other belongings to Genl. Marshall and forwarded to him\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eImmediately upon the receipt of Genl. Crittenden's order, so uncertain was telegraphic communication, I sent my Quarter Master to Lynchburg to arrange for transportation by rail to Nashville and had already procured it and would have been on the way to Nashville but for the bursting of one of the [flues] of the engines, when I received the following order by Telegraph\nreceived in Abingdon Dec 10th about dark.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eKnoxville Dec 10th\u003cbr\u003e\nTo Col. Stuart,\nGenl. A . S. Johnston orders that your Regiment remain with Genl. Marshall.\u003cbr\u003e\nW. H. Carroll\u003cbr\u003e\nBrig. Genl.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eUpon the reception of this order I immediately telegraphed the Department to know whose orders I should obey? In the meantime the waggons I had secured for my Regiment were on the way to Pound Gap and I was thus compelled to\ncommence again to prepare transportation for that trip.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI had been quite unwell with jaundice ad the Surgeon finding that we would be compelled to go to Pound Gap told me that he would not answer for the consequences should I undertake to go and advised my return to Richmond, where I have been confined to my room with a severe attack of Rheumatism until within the last ten days. I left the Regiment under command of Lt. Col. Slaughter and I know that the delay in proceeding to join Genl. Marshall arose from no indisposition on his part to execute the orders, but from an absolute inability to procure the necessary transportation.\nThere can be found in the service no officer more active, intelligent and competent to the discharge of the duties of his position. We are anxious if there is the slightest doubt remaining on the mind of the Honl. Sec. as to the want of proper activity on the part of the officer of the Regiment to move forward, that he will order a Court of Inquiry that the matter may be thoroughly sifted.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI have the honor to be\u003cbr\u003e\nYour obt. servt.\u003cbr\u003e\nWm. D. Stuart, Col.\u003cbr\u003e\n56th Va. Regt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenl. Hospital\u003cbr\u003e\nRichmd. March 4 1862\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWm. T Cross, Private Co. E. 56 Reg. Va. Vols. has been in this hospital since 1 Nov 1861 with Secondary Syphilis. He has now Syphilitic Rheumatism \u0026amp; as his turn of enlistment will expire in June, I recommend his discharge from the service.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI. Beu. Gibson\u003cbr\u003e\nSurg. P. A. C. S.\u003cbr\u003e\nRichmond Genl. Hospital\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOfficial business\u003cbr\u003e\nWm. D. Stuart\u003cbr\u003e\nCol: 56 Regt.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSir,\u003cbr\u003e\nEnclosed please find Certificate of disability for Private W. T. Cross. It must be approved by the Capt. of his Co. \u0026amp; Col. of the Reg. \u0026amp; returned to me- at least this is the usual form.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIf there is a prospect of obtaining his discharge at once, I would prefer his remaining in the Hospital until it is received here.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eVery resp.\u003cbr\u003e\nI. B. Gibson\u003cbr\u003e\nSurg. P. A. C. S.\u003cbr\u003e\nRichmd Genl. Hospital\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichmond Arsenal\u003cbr\u003e\nMarch 8th 1862\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMy Dear Colonel,\u003cbr\u003e\nThis will be handed you by my friend Col. W. D Stuart 56 Va. Vols. who is about joining his Regiment, at present attached to your Department. Col. Stuart has by severe sickness been detained from following a career so nobly begun at Bethel.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHis health is now sufficiently restored to justify his joining his command. I bespeak for him your kind consideration in advance, because having known him intimately from boyhood to the present time, I declare him to be a \"gentleman and a soldier\", as Lear was a king- \"every inch\".\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYour Friend\u003cbr\u003e\nBriscoe G. Baldwin\u003cbr\u003e\nCapt. Arty. P. [A?]\u003cbr\u003e\nCol. W. W. Mackall\u003cbr\u003e\nA. A. Genl.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHead Quarters Floyd's Division\u003cbr\u003e\nChattanooga, Mar 17th 1862\u003cbr\u003e\nGeneral Order\u003cbr\u003e\nNo. 246\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe reenlisted men of this command are entitled to a furlough of sixty days at home, but in case of a collision with the enemy at Knoxville this will be suspended for one week.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy order\u003cbr\u003e\nBrig. Gen. Floyd\u003cbr\u003e\n[C. Derrick]\u003cbr\u003e\nA.A. Gen.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOfficial\u003cbr\u003e\n[Mr]Robin Terry\u003cbr\u003e\nA.A. A Gen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHeadquarters Floyd's Division\u003cbr\u003e\nCamp [? Childress] Mar 17 1862\u003cbr\u003e\nGeneral Orders\u003cbr\u003e\nNo. 27\u003cbr\u003e\nExtract\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe entire command will move tomorrow morning on the cars in the following order. 1st Headquarters, 2d Artillery, 3d. 1st Brigade, 4th 2d Brigade.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe 1st Brigade will load its baggage on the cars at 9 o'clock in the [trn]-yard just across the bridge arranging so that their baggage or wagons will not be in the way of Head Qrs.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy order Brig. Gen. Floyd\u003cbr\u003e\nPeter Otey\u003cbr\u003e\nA.A. Gen\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOfficial\u003cbr\u003e\nMr. Robbin Terry\u003cbr\u003e\nA.A. A Gen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHead Qrs Floyd Division\u003cbr\u003e\nKnoxville, March 19th/62\u003cbr\u003e\nSpecial Orders\u003cbr\u003e\nNo--\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHaving been relieved from my command I hereby turn over the troops under me to the command of Col. Maney commanding forces at Knoxville Tennessee. The commanding officers of Regts will report for duty at once to Col. Maney\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy order Brigdr Gen. Floyd\u003cbr\u003e\nPeter Otey\u003cbr\u003e\nA.A.G.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Field Officers and officers commanding regiments will report at these HdQrs as soon as practicable. The General desires to introduce these gentlemen to the commanding officer Col. Maney.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy direction\u003cbr\u003e\nBrigdr Gen. Floyd\u003cbr\u003e\nPeter Otey\u003cbr\u003e\nA.A.G.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHead Quarters Knoxville\u003cbr\u003e\nMarch 19th 1862\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCol. Stuart\u003cbr\u003e\nCommnd. 56th Va. Regt.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYou will hold your Regt. ready to move at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Send to these Headquarters by 8 ½O'clock tomorrow morning a report of the strength of your command for duty.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGeo. Maury\u003cbr\u003e\nCol. Comdg. at Knoxville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHd. Quarters Knoxville\u003cbr\u003e\n20th March 1862\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eColonel\u003cbr\u003e\nW. D. Stuart\u003cbr\u003e\n56 Va. Regiment\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYou are hereby directed to take command of all the forces here, formerly of Genl. Floyd's command in the movement towards Jacksboro. Capt. B. W. Snyder Qr. Master will report to you as Qr. Master for your command. He will be furnished with twelve 4 horse wagons for transportation of your command. If this transportation is more than sufficient for the tents, cooking utensils and ammunition necessary for your command you will please direct your commissary, whom you may select from your command, to load the unappropriated wagons with Flour and Bacon for which he will make requisition on the post commissary at this place.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRespectfully,\u003cbr\u003e\nGeo. Maney\u003cbr\u003e\nCol. Commanding\u003cbr\u003e\nForces at Knoxville\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHd Qrs Knoxville Mch 20th/62\u003cbr\u003e\nSpecial Order\u003cbr\u003e\nNo--\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCol. Stuart will move with his command tomorrow morning at 6 o'clk on the road to Clinton. You will have rations for one day cooked tonight.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy comd of\u003cbr\u003e\nCol. George Maney Comdg Post\u003cbr\u003e\nR.B. Snowden Adjt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHead Qrs Knoxville, March 21st 1862\u003cbr\u003e\nSpecial Order No-\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCol Stuart\u003cbr\u003e\nYou will hold your command, composed of the 36th, 50th, 51st and 56th Regts in readiness to move at 4 o'clk this afternoon towards Jacksboro.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCol. George Maney Comdg Post\u003cbr\u003e\nR.B. Snowden Adj't.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCol. Stuart\u003cbr\u003e\nI am instructed by Col. Maney to say you will not put your command on the march until further orders. You are however instructed to hold it ready to move at a moment's notice.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eR. B. Snowden Adjt.\u003cbr\u003e\nKnoxville March 21st 1862\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHd. Quarters Knoxville\u003cbr\u003e\nMarch 21st 1862\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCol. Stuart\u003cbr\u003e\nCommand. of Floyd Brigade\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYour order to march toward Clinton is revoked. I desire to see you at my Hd. Quarters in person at first convenient moment to regard to encamping your command here.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eVery Respectfully\u003cbr\u003e\nGeo. Maney Col.\u003cbr\u003e\nCommnd. At Knoxville\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLebanon, 31st March 1862\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCol. Stuart,\u003cbr\u003e\nOf so much of your order of the 28th as proposes the formation of a camp near Abingdon by the unfurloughed officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates of \"Floyd's Brigade\", I shall express no opinion at this time. I presume your halt at Abingdon, for instructions from Richmond, was in pursuance of your duty under the direction of Major General Smith. I am glad he has force to spare.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe others parts of your order I cheerfully approve and will sustain. I know of no vice so fatal to our soldiery as intemperance; and, independent of the loss of many genial fellows to the cause in which our swords are drawn, their fall is the gain of the meanest and the most heartless men in community. The vigor of authority shall not be wanting on my part to sustain every effort to limit the pernicious vice.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI enclose an Order, which please hand to Maj. Fisher that he may have a few struck off and sent after such of my men as have left Abingdon.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYour vindicatory note has been successful I imagine in proving that you did not delay marching last winter intentionally, but the failure to join me was a great misfortune to this command.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI am ready however to look forward and not backwards, and hope our acquaintance may be as agreeable in its continuance as it has been awkward in its beginning.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYours Respectfully,\u003cbr\u003e\nH. Marshall\u003cbr\u003e\nBrig. Genl. Comd.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApr 1st 1862\u003cbr\u003e\nCol. Stuart\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDear Sir,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe bearer of this note Mr. Hanshew is the father of the soldier in the 50th Regt. The young man is at present in hospital and has been quite a sufferer. He was sick in the autumn and before fairly recovered was taken to the west. He was subjected to all the exposure and hardships at Ft. Donelson where he was frost bitten in the trenches. The retreat and long march have proved too much for him and he is really quite worn out. His father wishes to take\nhim home for a few weeks if possible to [illegible] him \u0026amp; I think it important for the young man to go. I know the father well, he is worthy of trust and is a man of excellent character.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI am sir very truly yours\u003cbr\u003e\nJohn B. Floyd\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConfederate States of America\u003cbr\u003e\nTREASURY DEPARTMENT\u003cbr\u003e\nFIRST AUDITOR'S OFFICE\u003cbr\u003e\nApr. 8th 1862\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDear Mr. Stuart,\u003cbr\u003e\nI think I shall die if I don't manage to get with the Army in some capacity or other, \u0026amp; as the circumstances of my family do not admit of my going as a private, I must try to obtain some position which will pay. I have not the presumption to ask for a commission in the Infantry or Artillery, where a knowledge of military tactics is essential, but as all the appointments are not made in the Engineers Corps \u0026amp; for that a knowledge of Mathematics more than anything else is required, I have thought that I might possibly by some study in the meanwhile fit myself for a position in the Engineers. I would not myself have thought such to be the case, but for the assurance of a friend, who is in the Corps \u0026amp; and after considerable experience says that I am fully capable of filling such a position creditably. The object of my writing this letter therefore is to request that you will give me a testimonial to be presented to the Sec. of War, who would doubtless be influenced by what you say. Possibly with that \u0026amp; what I may get old Bledsoe, the Asst. Sec. to say for me, I may obtain a Lieutenancy in the Engineers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIf Frank had been successful I would not myself apply, but I suppose his application is pretty securely pigeon holed \u0026amp; he will never hear from it, though Tom Harris is now in the city \u0026amp; a member of the Military Committee of Congress.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI saw Aunt F. last night and she and the children are in good spirits, looking forward to visiting you in Abingdon, in accordance with your letter of recent date. Aunt F. was glad to hear of your being so well \u0026amp; comfortably fixed \u0026amp; perhaps her cheerfulness is only the reflection from your good spirits, as she learns from your letters \u0026amp; others who have seen you.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMa and the children are pleasantly fixed in Danville \u0026amp; are all very well: Frank was at Orange C. H. when I heard from him, though there is a rumor that his division went down to reinforce Magurder. The sky is brightening. I have not time to write more at present. Hoping to hear from you soon, I remain yours affectionately.\u003cbr\u003e\nW.R. Abbott\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbingdon 20th April 1862\u003cbr\u003e\nCol. Stuart\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDear Sir,\u003cbr\u003e\nMrs. Saunders, the bearer of this is the mother of the boy who is applying for a discharge on the score of minority. I sent you the certificate, \u0026amp; c some days ago. I have no doubt of his being under age. She wants to know the conditions of his application. May I ask you to let her know it?\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWith the highest respect\u003cbr\u003e\nYour obd. Servt.\u003cbr\u003e\nJohn B. Floyd\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConfederate States of America\u003cbr\u003e\nWAR DEPARTMENT\u003cbr\u003e\nEngineer's Bureau\u003cbr\u003e\nRichmond, Va. 30 April 1862\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGenl. G. W. Randolph\u003cbr\u003e\nSecretary of War\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSir,\u003cbr\u003e\nI have had the pleasure of knowing Col. W. D. Stuart for many years. At Lexington where we were cadets together, his peculiar qualifications as a soldier and tactician, on graduating, led to his immediate appointment as assistant instructor of infantry and artillery tactics, a position\nwhich he held with much credit for three years. Since the commencement of the war he has been constantly engaged on active service, first on the Peninsula and afterwards in the West. In the first locality I had the pleasure of again meeting him and heard him uniformly spoken of as a gallant, efficient, and accomplished officer.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn these days of uncertain tenure of office, your endorsement of the substance of this letter would probably be of great service to him, especially as his standing on the Peninsula and conduct in the Battle of Bethel are personally known to you.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWith great respect, your obedient servant,\u003cbr\u003e\nA. L. Rives\u003cbr\u003e\nActing Chf. Eng. Bu.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWar Department\u003cbr\u003e\nApril 30th 1862\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI take great pleasure in bearing the testimony to the gallantry and conduct of Col. Stuart at the Battle of Bethel of which I was an eye witness, and to his efficiency as an officer and his deportment as a gentleman. He is an educated soldier and I should be sorry for the Country to lose his services.\u003cbr\u003e\nGeo. W. Randolph\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCamp near Winchester, Va.\u003cbr\u003e\nOct 26 1862\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMy dear Colonel:\u003cbr\u003e\nI have rec'd your report of the battle of \"South Mountain\" and with it your very kind note.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI can truly assure you I was much gratified with the expressions of regard and esteem you therein expressed towards me. My brief association with you was among the most pleasant I have formed during the war and I sincerely trust it may be renewed at no distant time, under such auspices that we may be able to cultivate a still closer intimacy. With many prayers for you safety and happiness I remain truly your friend\u003cbr\u003e\nR. B. Garnett\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProvost Marshal's Office\u003cbr\u003e\nLynchburg, Va.\u003cbr\u003e\nOct 30th 1862\u003cbr\u003e\nCol. W. D. Stuart\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDear Sir,\u003cbr\u003e\nI received this morning a letter from one of the 56th Va. Regt. informing me that \"you \u0026amp; Maj. Green intended to write to the War Department and endeavor if possible to have me relieved of duty here and ordered to return to Regt.\" I at first doubted its authenticity, but seeing it was from a semi-official source I necessarily attached some importance to it.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI was astonished to hear that you contemplated such a thing as it would undoubtedly place me in a false light before the Department. I presumed you had received official notification of my appointment here.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI have always thought you were magnanimous enough not only to be willing for any officer of your Regt. to obtain promotion and a better position, but would aid him if possible in doing so.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI informed you in three letters before that I applied in Sept. last to Q. M. for transportation to Regt. and applying the same day to Adjt. Gen. Cooper in person to ascertain the point to go to, was directed by him to report to Maj. Gen. Smith for duty. By whom I was sent to Brig. Gen. Winder who ordered me to take charge of the C. S. Military Prison. I remained there about three weeks and discharged the duties satisfactorily to my commissioning officer and was on the 21st Oct. appointed \"Provost Marshal\" of this city with written orders from Maj. Gen. G. W. Smith, a copy of which I send you.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eEach position was unsolicited and unexpected by me; but at the same time agreeable ad satisfactory; because the \"posts\" I was assigned were not only easier and higher than the Capt. of Infantry, but also horses and servants furnished me, and paid $180 per month. The pay however is no consideration with me. The chances of promotion are still greater in my present position.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI will also state to you, that is I preferred it, I am legally exempt from military duty by the recent \"exemption act\" passed by both \"Houses of Congress\" and approved by the President. First I have a plantation with over 40 negroes, and on it \"no white male adult not liable to military duty.\" Second I have a large manufacturing mill and my superintendence is necessary for its successful operation. For either 1st or 2nd reasons I am exempt by \"Act of Congress\".\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBut notwithstanding pecuniary losses I am willing to remain in the army, provided my services will accomplish anything in the cause we are engaged.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI hope this will be satisfactory to you. I fear you did not receive my former letters making substantially the same statements as above; and I feel a conscientious sense of duty, in justice to myself to write to you again\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe appointment here was somewhat complimentary to me and I have intimations already of a higher and more responsible position being assigned me.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI would be glad if you would answer this.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eVery respectfully\u003cbr\u003e\nYour obt. Servant\u003cbr\u003e\nThomas D. Jeffress\u003cbr\u003e\nCapt. and Provost Marshall of Lynchburg\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eP.S. I understand that only 8 or 10 efficient men of Co. \"G\" are with the Regt. and only about 22 or 23 in all on roll. I left several in Richmond at Hospital who will probably never recover sufficiently to return to duty.\u003cbr\u003e\nT. D. J.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18th Va. Regt.\u003cbr\u003e\nNov. 26th 1862\u003cbr\u003e\nCol. W. D. Stuart\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCol.,\u003cbr\u003e\nIn reply to your note rec'd some time since asking of the \"mention made\" of Capt. T. D. Jeffress \"upon\" a report of one of the Richmond battles forwarded by myself to Brigade Hd. Qrs., I have to say that Capt. Jeffress made out the report of the battle himself, he being the Senr. Officer present who was in the fight. When the report was handed to me Lt. Chaffin Actg. Adjt. told me that the officers of the Regt. desired that I should make mention of the good conduct of Capt. Jeffress in battle, as the Capt. from motives of delicacy would of course say nothing of himself. I endorsed upon the report that I was not in the battle myself, was not in command of the Regiment at the time the events spoken of occurred, but that at the request of others, I would state that Capt. Jeffress deserved \"honorable mention\" for good conduct in battle. I have since learned that Lt. Chaffin was not in the fight himself and I am sorry that I acted upon his suggestion and made the endorsement referred to for the reason that I appeared to discriminate in favor of Capt. Jeffress when in fact I knew nothing of the conduct of any officer in the Regiment in the battle alluded to.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI am Col.\u003cbr\u003e\nVery Respectfully\u003cbr\u003e\nGeo. C. Cabell, Major\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCamp Near Petersburg\u003cbr\u003e\nof Pickett's Div. Garnett's Brig.\u003cbr\u003e\nMarch 7th 1863\u003cbr\u003e\nGenl. S. A. Cooper\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSir,\u003cbr\u003e\nI respectfully make an application for 25 Conscripts the requisite number to fill the reduced ranks of my Company at its present standard. You will confer a favour by assigning to the ranks of my Company 25 Conscripts,or any number as you, in your judgement may think proper or circumstances may require. You can see by my muster roll that my company only numbers 31 total present or absent, having never received any Conscripts since its entry into\nservice.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMost Respectfully\u003cbr\u003e\nYour obedient Servt.\u003cbr\u003e\nF. W. Nelson\u003cbr\u003e\nLt. Comd. Co. \"A\" 56th Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCamp Near Petersburg, Va.\u003cbr\u003e\nMarch 7th 1863\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI respectfully ask permission to be absent from my duties for a few days for the following reasons. My property has been dwindling away daily since 25th Dec last, for want of my personal attention. My negroes are roaming through the country without a proper home and I will probably lose them all if I cannot attend to the matter immediately. I leave my company in command of the Capt. I have deferred asking leave of absence until now, because of there being only two (2) officers belonging to the company and the comdg. Officer of the Regt. deems it best that the vacancies of 2nd and 2nd jr. Lieuts. should not be filled at present, I presume because of the smallness of the Co. I reenlisted as a private and have never received a furlough or anything in lieu thereof and have never been absent without leave.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eS. D. Cronin 1st Lieut.\u003cbr\u003e\nCo. \"I\" 56th Va. Regt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarch 8th, 1863\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI respectfully ask for a leave of absence for 20 days to visit my home in Mecklenburg Co. Va. having been in the service for 20 months and having never received but four days furlough since the organization of my Regiment. I hope this application will be granted. I was originally a 12 months Volunteer and subsequently reenlisted for the War.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLieut. F. W. Nelson\u003cbr\u003e\nCo. A. 56th Va. Regt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKittrell's Springs\u003cbr\u003e\nJuly 27th 1863\u003cbr\u003e\nCol. Wm. D. Stuart\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDear Sir,\u003cbr\u003e\nI was transferred from General Hospital No. 10 to Black's and White's Hospital, from that place on the recommendation of the Medical Director in Richmond (Dr. Wm. Carrington) I was allowed the privilege of going home and report once in fifteen days in person or through my Physician's certificate. My furlough was extended the other day, 30 days to enable me to visit\nthe Springs for my health. I am improving very rapidly mow and shall be on, as soon as I am able for duty. You have passed though a very fiery ordeal since I left you. I regret being absent from my company in time of battle. I am truly sorry to learn that you are wounded, hope it will not prove serious, and allow me here to indulge the hope that you will be Genl. Garrett's successor. You certainly deserve the place. I am very anxious to hear from my company. I heard indirectly that Lieut. Finley was wounded, whether seriously or not I did not learn. Pickett's Division was very badly cut up. The mortality among officers was unprecedented. I expect to be here at least two weeks longer. I wish to get entirely well before returning. When I return again I hope to be able to stay with you. Direct your letter to \"Lawrenceville. Brunswick Co. Va.\" With my best wishes that you may speedily recover and when I see you again you may be my Brigadier. I subscribe myself your true friend,\u003cbr\u003e\nN. A. Flournoy\u003c/p\u003e"],"odd_heading_ssm":["Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription","Transcription"],"odd_tesim":["Virginia Military Institute \nDecember 3 1850","My dear sir \nHaving understood that Mr. W. D. Stuart is an applicant for a commission in the U.S. Army I take the liberty of addressing you a private note on his behalf. I do this in preference to the formal course of a recommendation, because you will be better able to appreciate what I may\nsay in the unreserved mode in which I write.","You are aware that Mr. S. entered this Institution as a cadet in July 1847. After completing the whole course of studies, he was graduated in July last with great credit. You will see by the accompanying merit roll that in all his classes he maintained a most respectable standing, while in Geology, Artillery, and Infantry Tactics, he was No. 1. And in Military Engineering 3rd.","In addition to these facts, he was a commissioned officer of the Corps of Cadets and gave great satisfaction to us in the manner in which he discharged his duties.","So high was our estimate of his talents as a scholar and qualifications as an officer, that on a vacancy in our Corps of Instructors occurring in July, he was selected as an assistant Professor of Math. And assistant Instructor of Tactics and has been discharging these duties with great credit up to the present time.","From my personal knowledge of the qualifications of an officer of the Army, I know that there are few young men who enter the Service from West Point who are better qualified than Stuart and I have no doubt he will make as fine an officer as can be selected for the Infantry arm of\nthe Service.","You know his moral qualifications as well as I do. If any doubt had existed on this point, he would never have been appointed an officer in this Institution.","hope it will be the pleasure of the President to confer an appointment upon Mr. Stuart.","This Institution has been laboring now for 11 years in building up its Military reputation and we should like to have an opportunity of comparing our graduates with those from West Point.","With cordial regards to Mrs. S. \nI am very truly your friend \nFrancis H. Smith","Hon. A. H. H. Stuart\nWashington City","Va. Military Institute \nDec 10th 1850","Mr. W.D. Stuart desires to obtain a commision in the U.S. Army. His present post, that of Asst. Instructor of Tactics in the Va. Military Institute is evidence of his peculiar fitness for command. His acquirements at the Insititute of which he is a graduate, embracing Engineering, Artillery, and Infantry Tactics, with Mathematics and the Natural Sciences were such as to induce the authorities of the Institute to select him from her many graduates for the very responsible situation he now holds, a situation which requires judgement, firmness and decision of Character- all of which Mr. Stuart possesses in a high degree. His uniformily gentlemanly\ndeportment has endeared him to his fellow officers and will make him grace the position he seeks. \nThomas. H. Williamson \nProf. Engr. \u0026 Arch.","VMI \nDecember 10, 1850","W. Stuart was appointed immediately after his graduation Assistant Instructor of Tactics in the Virginia Military Institute. This is the highest and most indubitable testimony of the estimate of his military qualifications, by those who know him best. The course of military instruction and discipline at the Institute conforms strictly to that of the U.S.A. at West Point and is conducted by graduates of the latter Institution. If from a jealous regard to the character of the Army, the\nGovernment ordinarily restricts its commissions to the graduates of West Point, the same principle might well incline it, in its exceptional appointment of citizens, to feel a preference for those, who like Mr. Stuart, have at a State Institution, thoroughly prepared themselves for the Military Profession. \nJohn T.L. Preston \nProf. V.M.I","Engineers Office \nMemphis and Charleston Railroad \nHuntsville \nNovember 22d 1854","My Dear Stuart, \nI have just stolen away from my wife and have run up to my office with the determination of writing you. I was not a little surprised to learn through your letter that you had written me. Your letter, which reached me about ten days ago was the only one I have received from you since your marriage. I wrote you at that particularly interesting time a note of congratulations, as well as a letter, just before your mariage, but have received no letter in return. Now my good fellow I have no doubt but what you think that you wrote me, but as for my part I am inclined to think that you did not. I am sure I should not think it strange if you had not for you are a newly married man, and as a matter of course can not afford to give your friends many thoughts, at least for a while.","It is really refreshing, my old friend to hear from you and especially to know that you are a married man and in the full enjoyment of the pleasures that attend married love. My wife returned from Virginia about the first of September with much improved health---and my boy is a most magnificent fellow. A look at him might be of some service to you. Don't blush my dear fellow I don't mean any thing.","Dabney, what under the sun has become of all of our class mates. You are living in the center of our great union and should be posted up on every thing. I never see the names of any of our class in the papers, nor do I ever correspond with any of them, hence I am utterly ignorant of their movements. I never any thing from Lexington since you left there. Have any of our old acquaintances married off since our days-.","Matters here are still wearing a pleasant and flattering aspect. Our road is moving on finely, and we trust ere many more months pass away, that we will have a large and important portion of our work finished. I wish that we had a good comfortable post to offer you here. We are finishing up so fast that we are reducing the Corps instead of increasing. Still, should you ever make up your mind to embark in the profession, we might look out for a post for you.","Your school I trust will for the present afford you a comfortable competency, and something besides. School teaching, like every thing else has its reverses, its calms and its storms. We can find no profession that is made up entirely of sunshine. We must expect the life of man to harmonize with nature, having its passing clouds and refreshing sunshine in equal turns. I with all my hopeful temperament, have had my moments of gloom and anxiety, but with a fond wife, no less hopeful than myself, to cheer me, I have faced all and am now full of bright anticipation. Nor does this come about from any fortune, or particular promises, but all from a conviction that there is room for everyone in this world and plenty for everyone to do, and that industry when ever it is found is in the course of time rewarded. This is an unusually difficult time with almost everyone. There seems to be a weariness in the money market in every quarter. Men experience great difficulty in meeting their general expenses. This state of affairs, I have no doubt has had its influence upon your school, and I feel assured that there will be an improvement after a little while. I hope my dear Stuart, that you will continue to keep me posted up in regard to your movements, for I may find a good offering out South that would please you, and if such should be the case, it would give me inexpressible pleasure to serve you. I will always be on the look out. A new country is better for a young man in any profession. The competition is not so great and pay better. Present me the kindest manner to your good wife and receive the renewed assurance of your old and sincere friend and classmate. \nGabe Jordan Jr.","Richmond, Va. \nApril 15th 1861","Gov. Letcher \nDear Sir, \nI enclose recommendations from the Authorities of the Va. Military Institute to the Secretary of War under Mr. Fillmore for an appointment in the U.S. Army at that time. I submit them to you in my own behalf for an appointment under the State of Va. in the event of her secession from\nthe present Federal Government. I desire an appointment to any position in which my services may be required the most valuable, either in the active duties of the field or otherwise. \nVery respectfully yours, \nWm. D. Stuart","Head Qrs Va Forces \nRichmond Va. May 20 1861 \nSpecial Orders \nNo 82","Col. T.P. August, Lt. Col. W.D. Stuart, and Major Thos. G. Peyton, Virginia Vols, are assigned to duty with the troops at the \"Camp of Instruction\" and will report without delay to Col. William Gilham commanding that post.","By order of Maj. Genl Lee \nR. Garnett \nAdjt Genl.","Richmond \nMay 21st 1861 \nCapt. W. D. Stuart","Dear Sir, \nAt a meeting of the Richmond City Guard held this evening, the undersigned were appointed a Committee to express to you the unfeigned regret of the Company on having read your resignation, and to tender you the sincere thanks of the Company for the faithfulness and efficiency with which you have discharged the duties of Commanding Officer.","While the Company deplores deeply the necessity which separates you from us, we rejoice to know that our Beloved State will have the benefit of your valuable services.","Permit us personally and on behalf of the Company to tender you our best wishes for your future happiness and prosperity.","Very truly your friends, \nDavis N. Walker \nSamuel M. Bailey \nJames E. Burress","Unofficial","Camp of Instruction \nMay 23rd","My dear Col. \nWhen three field officers were assigned to duty here, I was so green as to put each in command of a Regt., having no other officers who knew any thing about organizing a Regt. This arrangement does not seem to have suited Col. August, who has been complaining to the powers that be, and I have received an order directing me to assign them all to one Regt--that of Col. August of course. Col. Stuart is one of them, and is totally unprepared for the field; he will make application to Gen. Fauntleroy this evening for a few days, please see what you can do for him. Gen. F. though may not have him in his Divn, if so he will have to go to Col. Magruder of course.","Yours sincerely \nW. Gilham","Richmond \nJuly 5th 1861 \nLt. Col. Stewart [Stuart] \n3rd Regt. Va. Vols. \nYorktown","Dear Sir, \nSometime, about the latter part of May or the commencement of June your lady Mrs. Stewart in company with Mrs. Lucy Wharton called at my Office in order to procure material for the purpose of making you a tent as they were unable to get a tent allready made: and stated that you were without one. Under these circumstances, I furnished the necessary material with the consent of Col. Heth the then Q.M. General who instructed me to take your receipt for one tent. The receipt has been delayed from various causes, partly because I did not know the address of Mrs. Stewart or yourself. Should you receive this letter I would be much obliged that you sign and return me the enclosed receipt; by your prompt attention to wit you will much oblige.","Yours very respectfully, \nMaury Garland \nCapt. and Asst. Q. M.","Head Quarters Williamsburg \nJuly 25th 1861","Col., \nThe General having understood that Colonel August is unwell. He directs that you will urge with the greatest vigor the work on the Fortification at King's Mill. In order to do this you will have but one drill a day in the evening. The working hours will be from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. and from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. The guns to place in the various works are now on the way here and it is specially desired to have the works ready for them at the earliest moment.","I am sir very respectfully \nYour obedient servant \nG. B. Cosby \nMaj. and AAAG","Adjutant Inspr Genl's Office \nRichmond \nSept 17th 1861 \nExtract \nSpecial Orders \nNo. 280","XI. Lieut Colonel William D. Stuart Virginia Volunteers is promoted to be Colonel and assigned to the Command of the 56th Virginia Regiment just organized at Camp Lee, near this city, andwill report accordingly.","By order of the Secretary of War \n[Geo. Deas] \nA.A.G.","Camp Lee \nNov. 15th 1861 \nCol. George W. Munford","Sir \nI had the honor receive at the hands of Col. S. Bassett French the Flag of Va. intended for the Regiment I have the honor to command, also the accompanying letter of presentation from you.","As the commanding officer of the Regt. and its organ upon this occasion, I need not assure you that I received it with pride and satisfaction. Regarding it as the emblem of the honor and purity of our Mother State, hitherto unsullied in Council or War it shall be carefully guarded that it receive no detriment at the hands of the Regiment to which you have confided. I think I can with all safety assure you, and that the Sons of Va., voluntarily of the 56th Va. Regt. will ever be found at their post of duty and that they will never do discredit to the sacred cause in which they have enlisted.","The Daughters of Va. whose fair hands have wrought this beautiful emblem of Va.'s honor, will never have cause to blush for shame at the conduct of their brothers.","I am very respectfully \nYour obedient servant \nWilliam D. Stuart, Col. \nCommanding 56th Va. Regt.","Adjt and Insp Genls Office \nRichmond, Nov 21st 1861 \nExtract \nSpecial Orders \nNo 232","XI. The 56th Regiment Virginia Volunteers, Col. Stuart Commanding, will proceed without delay, via Wytheville, to Jeffersonville, VA. and report for duty to Brig. Genl. Marshall.","By Command of the Sec. of War \nJno. Withers \nAsst. Adjt. Genl.","Head Quarters Brigade \nPound Gap \n1 Dec 1861","Col. Stuart, \nSir, \nIn reply to your note reporting your command to me, I direct that you move your regiment forward by Pound Gap towards Prestonburg in Kentucky, as soon as possible after the reception of the order, unless you should receive other directions from Maj. Genl. George B. Crittenden at Knoxville.","I am sir, \nYour obedient servant, \nHumphrey Marshall \nBrig. Genl.","Some of the wagoners I hired and started left the teams on the road. I am compelled to go to Abingdon by private conveyance ad will purchase some waggons \u0026 c by the way and hire other wagoners.","W. Gibboney \nA. Q. M.","Transportation Office C.S.A \nWytheville, Va. December 2nd 1861 \nCol. W. D. Stuart \nCom. 56th Regt. Va. Vols. \nAbingdon Va.","Colonel, \nThe Frt. Agt. of the Va. and Tenn. R. R. has requested me to give him vouchers for the transportation of the stores in the Train which accompanied that containing your Regiment from Wytheville to Abigdon and allso for the baggage of the Regiment.","Will you please inform me whether you have already provided receipt for the transportation and whether the baggage was entitled to transportable from government. I have the honor to be","Very Respectfully \nYour obedient servant \nA. Meade Smith \nCapt. \u0026 [Acting] QM CSA","Hd. Qts. Knoxville, Tenn \nDec. 5th 1861","To- \nCol. Stuart \nCommd. 56th Regt. Va. Vols.","You will move with your Regiment as soon as transportation can be furnished to you, to Nashville Tenn.","By Command of \nMaj. Genl. G. B. Crittenden \nA.S. Cunningham \nA.A. Genl.","Received at: Abingdon Dec 10 1861","By Telegraph from: Knoxville Dec 10 \nTo: Col. Stuart","Genl. Johnson orders that your Regiment remain with Genl. Marshall W. H. Carroll \nBrig. Genl.","Received at: Abingdon Dec 11 1861 \nBy Telegraph from: Richmond Dec 11 \nTo: Col. W. D. Stuart","Proceed with your Regiment to Pound Gap and report to Genl. Marshall. The Quarter Masters Dept. is ordered to furnish transportation.","S. Cooper \nA. G.","Headquarters 1st Brigade \nArmy of Eastern Ky. \nCamp near Paintville \nDec 21st 1861","Special Order \nNo. 8","Col. Stuart is directed to move his Regiment from Abingdon immediately with such transportation as can be procured. It is of the first importance to the safety and success of the command on this frontier that the reinforcements destined for the forces already here shall move to the front without delay. Fine opportunities for brilliant successes have been lost for want of their presence ad others are daily passing away. The weather has favored the\nmovement of the troops, but has not been taken at advantage. The General directs that the movement be commenced without further delay and that the passage of the troops over Pound Gap be notified to him by the returning courier.","By order of \nBrig. Genl. H. Marshall \nAtt. B. H. Bradley \nA. Adjt. Genl.","1861 December 22 \nPaintsville, KY 22nd Dec.","Col. Stuart, \nI send express to you to move your regiment without delay. I am before a force so much superior to me in number, according to the report of reliable scouts, that I can scarcely hope to avoid a collision-- it may be disastrous to us- until you arrive.","If there are any forces near your route who are disengaged I would like exceedingly to have them assist me now. I am here with a force not amounting to 1500 men fit for duty. I shall struggle to keep off the evil day as long possible for you to arrive.","Yours truly \u0026 c \nH. Marshall \nBrig. Genl.","[note on back] \nPress transportation any where you can, if it is not ready, but travel lightly for the roads are deep. H.M.","Adj. [\u0026] Inspect. Genl's Office \nRichmond Dec 24/61","Sir, \nThe Secretary of War directs that you immediately proceed to carry out the instructions referred to in your comn of the 23rd inst. by reporting, with all your effective force, for duty to Brig. General Marshall, making proper provisions for your sick at Abingdon.","Very Respectfully \nYour Obd. Servt. \nR. H. Chilton \nA. Genl.","Lt. Col. Philip P. Slaughter \nOr/ Commanding Officer \n56 Reg. Va. Vols. \nAbingdon , Va.","Abingdon (Va) Dec 27th 1861","To- \nCol. Wm. D Stuart","Dear Sir: \nSince my arrival I have received orders to go immediately to Pound Gap from both the Sec. of War and Gen. Marshall. The order from Gen. M is both peremptory and urgent, and it is asource of the greatest mortification to me to find that, at so critical a juncture we are totally impotent, and I much fear (\"entre nous\") our reputation may suffer in the mind of the public\nwho cannot be aware of the embarrassing circumstances by which we are surrounded. I think it would be well if you could represent us in our true colors to the War Dept. Genl. M. writes that he is threatened by a superior force and urges our immediate movement which I am unable to comply with, not having more than eight or nine waggons and no horses. At the very earliest moment possible I will move on to Pound Gap with the fragment of the Regt.","From what I have learned since writing the above, the opinion prevails in Richmond that the Regt. declined transportation on account of the \"onerous march across the mountains\". You can judge of the correctness of this statement. Such seems to be the prevailing opinion in the War. Dept. Can you do any thing for us? I am in the worst quandary I ever was in my life.\nPlease telegraph me at your earliest convenience.","I think a court of inquiry would be beneficial to us: at all events, it could not injure us.","Yours very respectfully \nP. P. Slaughter \nFavor of \nCapt. R. B. Patterson \nQ.M.","P. S. \nI enclose you Genl. Marshall's orders, that you may see how we stand. I retain a copy of them. You will also find enclosed, the order from War Dept. P. P. S.","Abingdon Dec. 27th 1861","To- \nBrig. Gen. Marshall","Sir, \nI am in receipt of your order of the 22nd inst. as well as your Special Order No. 8. It is a source of exceeding regret and much mortification to me, to find myself in so crippled a condition at such a critical junction. Twice since being here I have prepared transportation in accordance with orders, once to join your command, which, when I got ready, I was compelled to decline by an order from Gen. Crittenden \"to go immediately to Nashville and report to Gen. A. S. Johnston. I then went to work to get transportation by rail, to Nashville, which I after some days effected. My men were at the Depot ready to march on the cars, when I received a telegram to remain and go with you; since which time I have not been able to collect the necessary No. of waggons to convey the Regt. in obedience to orders.","The Regt. is reduced lower than one half its original size, and is at present in a very debilitated condition. Col. Stuart, by reason of sickness has not been able to take command of the Regt. since leaving Richmond. Maj. Green is absent, all of which combine to place me in a very unenviable position upon the receipt of your orders.","As to the matter of transportation, I have only eight or ten wagons and no horses, as the Quartermaster informs me.","I shall endeavor to the utmost of my ability to move at the earliest time possible and most sincerely hope I may be able to join you in season to render some assistance in the existing emergency.","This will be handed to you by Capt. T. Smith of the 56th Regt. in whom you can place all confidence.","I did not see your courier or I should have dispatched by him. He left before I could reach the village.","I am sir very respectfully \nYour obt. Servt. \nPhilip P. Slaughter \nLt. Col. Comd. 56th Va. Regt.","Abigdon, Va. Dec 27th 1861","Dear Colonel, \n'Tis said and I more than partly believe that we are to move to Marshall's Command per Pound Gap and that in some what of a hurry. Your command is worse off in the matter of sick men than when you left. There are forty men in the Hospital and the number would be greater in there were room. The number of sick men in camp and private houses is hardly to be believed,\nbut I think I am in bounds when I say that if 250 men rank and file are able to march now, 'tis more than I expect. But 'tis hardly friendly to trouble you with such things so I'll only say that we \"what can go\" are going and no mistake. I hear you have some idea of joining us immediately. Don't hurry unless you are really strong enough; for I know your impetuosity of old.","In great haste \nM. Howard","Adjt and Inspr. Genl's Office \nRichmond, Jany 2 1862 \nExtract \nSpecial Order \nNo. 1","Colonel Stuart's 56th Regiment Virginia Volunteers is detached from General Humphrey Marshall's Command and will immediately proceed to Bowling Green Kentucky and report to General A.S. Johnston for duty with General Floyds Brigade.","By Command of the Secretary of War \nJohn Withers \nAsst. Adjt Genl.","Abingdon (Va) Jan. 4th 1862 \nCol. Wm. D. Stuart","Dear Sir, \nOn yesterday, I received from Captain Patteson the following telegram. \"Col. Stuart says, leave Jacob and his baggage\". The dispatch said nothing of the horse. I was in much doubt about him. Before determining, I mentioned the matter to Dr. Howard, who by the way, has been confined to his bed for a week, \u0026 is unable to proceed with the Regt. and intends keeping his horse with him. After reading the telegram, he advised me to leave your horse in care of Jacob. All your baggage, that is, all I imagine was meant, consisting of a horse, saddle \u0026 bridle, sword, bed, trunk, field glasses, canteen, etc. I turned over to Mr. Benham, saw them placed together in a room and showed them to Jacob.","Six companies of the Regt. have gone in under command of Capt. Boswell. The others will go tonight. I am much afraid we may be detained somewhat at Union, the first burnt bridge; but our great object is to get away as fast as possible from the road to Pound Gap. I will send you a copy of the order from the Sec of War.","Jacob, during our troubles has been invaluable to me; indeed, while attending to my immensible duties, I think I would have starved but for his providing hand \u0026 it is almost certain I would have lost everything I have, but for his care. I envy you very much the possession of so valuable \u0026 reliable a servant.","I told him he would either keep his horse in the Quartermaster's stables or at Mr. Benham's. In case I misinterpreted your wishes concerning him, and you should desire him to be sent on, write to Dr. Howard, who expects to carry his own, \u0026 it will be as easy to carry two as one. Should you adopt this suggestion, you had better write immediately.","Jacob desires me to say he is tolerable well and would like to hear from you as soon as convenient to know what course he is to pursue.","Maj. Green has not returned as yet. Two of Capt. Richardson's men deserted last night. I think we have some thirty sick in the hospital.","Hoping this may find you rapidly recovering and that you are able to rejoin us speedily.","I am sir, very respectfully \nP. P. Slaughter","[on back]\nCopy of Order from Sec. Of War \nExtract \nAdj. \u0026 Inspect. Genl's Office \nRichmond Jan 2th 1862 \nSpecial Order \nNo. 1:","XV. Colonel Stuart's 56th Regt. Virginia Volunteers, is detached from General Humphrey Marshall's Command and will immediately proceed to Bowling Green, Kentucky and report to General A. S. Johnston for duty with General Floyd's Brigade.","By Command of the Secretary of War \nJno. Withers \nAsst. Adjt. Genl. Col. 56th Va. Vols. \nTo \nCommanding Officer C. S. Forces \nAbingdon Va.","Richmond, Va. \nFeb 5th 62","Genl. Cooper, \nSir, \nI beg leave to submit he following statement to the Department in refutation of the report, circulated I understand at the Head Qrs. by the Brigade Quartermaster of Genl. Humphrey Marshall's, to the effect that I had refused transportation for my command, from Abingdon to Prestonsburg the point to which I was ordered by Genl. Marshall. The enclosed letter written at\nthe time to the Department has bearing upon this point. The following is a literal copy of the order from Genl. Marshall by my messenger Capt. Taylor sent to inquire to which point I should march.","Head Quarters Brigade \nPound Gap 1 Dec 1861","Col. Stuart, \nSir, \nIn reply to your note reporting your command to me, I direct that you move your regiment forward by Pound Gap towards Prestonsburg in Kentucky, as soon as possible after the reception of this order, unless you should receive directions from Major Genl. George B. Crittenden at Knoxville.","I am sir \nYour Obt. Servt. \nHumphrey Marshall \nBrig. Genl.","This order was received late at night and a verbal message by Capt. Taylor that a messenger had been sent to Genl. Crittenden to inform him of my presence in Abingdon and that he should write order me to join him if necessary. Not hearing from Genl. Crittenden in forty-eight hours after, I sent Lieut. Col. Slaughter to Knoxville to find out from him at once whether I should expect orders from him and he replied by Telegraph through Capt. Cunningham his A. A. Genl.ordering me to Nashville \u0026 Col. Slaughter returned the following day bringing the following order by which this is an exact copy.","Hd. Qrs. Knoxville Tenn. \nDec. 5th 1861 \nTo Col Stuart \nCommand. 56th Regt. Va. Vols.","Sir, \nYou will move with your Regiment as soon as transportation can be furnished to Nashville, Tenn.","By Command of \nMaj. Genl. G. B. Crittenden \nS. Cunningham A.Genl.","The interval between the reception of these orders was employed by me busily in attempting to procure transportation and finding no Quarter Master at Abingdon, I sent to Wytheville for Capt. Gibboney A. Q. M. at that point to report at Abingdon and assist me. My own QuarterMaster was without funds for that purpose. Capt. Gibboney arrived bringing with him waggons purchased on the road and by the time of the reception of the order from Genl. Crittenden, I had enough transportation on hand, by leaving some articles behind to enable me to reach Prestonsburg. Of course after the order of Genl. Crittenden, I had no use for the waggons and ordered them immediately to be loaded with supplies of ordnance and other belongings to Genl. Marshall and forwarded to him","Immediately upon the receipt of Genl. Crittenden's order, so uncertain was telegraphic communication, I sent my Quarter Master to Lynchburg to arrange for transportation by rail to Nashville and had already procured it and would have been on the way to Nashville but for the bursting of one of the [flues] of the engines, when I received the following order by Telegraph\nreceived in Abingdon Dec 10th about dark.","Knoxville Dec 10th \nTo Col. Stuart,\nGenl. A . S. Johnston orders that your Regiment remain with Genl. Marshall. \nW. H. Carroll \nBrig. Genl.","Upon the reception of this order I immediately telegraphed the Department to know whose orders I should obey? In the meantime the waggons I had secured for my Regiment were on the way to Pound Gap and I was thus compelled to\ncommence again to prepare transportation for that trip.","I had been quite unwell with jaundice ad the Surgeon finding that we would be compelled to go to Pound Gap told me that he would not answer for the consequences should I undertake to go and advised my return to Richmond, where I have been confined to my room with a severe attack of Rheumatism until within the last ten days. I left the Regiment under command of Lt. Col. Slaughter and I know that the delay in proceeding to join Genl. Marshall arose from no indisposition on his part to execute the orders, but from an absolute inability to procure the necessary transportation.\nThere can be found in the service no officer more active, intelligent and competent to the discharge of the duties of his position. We are anxious if there is the slightest doubt remaining on the mind of the Honl. Sec. as to the want of proper activity on the part of the officer of the Regiment to move forward, that he will order a Court of Inquiry that the matter may be thoroughly sifted.","I have the honor to be \nYour obt. servt. \nWm. D. Stuart, Col. \n56th Va. Regt.","Genl. Hospital \nRichmd. March 4 1862","Wm. T Cross, Private Co. E. 56 Reg. Va. Vols. has been in this hospital since 1 Nov 1861 with Secondary Syphilis. He has now Syphilitic Rheumatism \u0026 as his turn of enlistment will expire in June, I recommend his discharge from the service.","I. Beu. Gibson \nSurg. P. A. C. S. \nRichmond Genl. Hospital","Official business \nWm. D. Stuart \nCol: 56 Regt.","Sir, \nEnclosed please find Certificate of disability for Private W. T. Cross. It must be approved by the Capt. of his Co. \u0026 Col. of the Reg. \u0026 returned to me- at least this is the usual form.","If there is a prospect of obtaining his discharge at once, I would prefer his remaining in the Hospital until it is received here.","Very resp. \nI. B. Gibson \nSurg. P. A. C. S. \nRichmd Genl. Hospital","Richmond Arsenal \nMarch 8th 1862","My Dear Colonel, \nThis will be handed you by my friend Col. W. D Stuart 56 Va. Vols. who is about joining his Regiment, at present attached to your Department. Col. Stuart has by severe sickness been detained from following a career so nobly begun at Bethel.","His health is now sufficiently restored to justify his joining his command. I bespeak for him your kind consideration in advance, because having known him intimately from boyhood to the present time, I declare him to be a \"gentleman and a soldier\", as Lear was a king- \"every inch\".","Your Friend \nBriscoe G. Baldwin \nCapt. Arty. P. [A?] \nCol. W. W. Mackall \nA. A. Genl.","Head Quarters Floyd's Division \nChattanooga, Mar 17th 1862 \nGeneral Order \nNo. 246","The reenlisted men of this command are entitled to a furlough of sixty days at home, but in case of a collision with the enemy at Knoxville this will be suspended for one week.","By order \nBrig. Gen. Floyd \n[C. Derrick] \nA.A. Gen.","Official \n[Mr]Robin Terry \nA.A. A Gen.","Headquarters Floyd's Division \nCamp [? Childress] Mar 17 1862 \nGeneral Orders \nNo. 27 \nExtract","The entire command will move tomorrow morning on the cars in the following order. 1st Headquarters, 2d Artillery, 3d. 1st Brigade, 4th 2d Brigade.","The 1st Brigade will load its baggage on the cars at 9 o'clock in the [trn]-yard just across the bridge arranging so that their baggage or wagons will not be in the way of Head Qrs.","By order Brig. Gen. Floyd \nPeter Otey \nA.A. Gen","Official \nMr. Robbin Terry \nA.A. A Gen.","Head Qrs Floyd Division \nKnoxville, March 19th/62 \nSpecial Orders \nNo--","Having been relieved from my command I hereby turn over the troops under me to the command of Col. Maney commanding forces at Knoxville Tennessee. The commanding officers of Regts will report for duty at once to Col. Maney","By order Brigdr Gen. Floyd \nPeter Otey \nA.A.G.","The Field Officers and officers commanding regiments will report at these HdQrs as soon as practicable. The General desires to introduce these gentlemen to the commanding officer Col. Maney.","By direction \nBrigdr Gen. Floyd \nPeter Otey \nA.A.G.","Head Quarters Knoxville \nMarch 19th 1862","Col. Stuart \nCommnd. 56th Va. Regt.","You will hold your Regt. ready to move at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Send to these Headquarters by 8 ½O'clock tomorrow morning a report of the strength of your command for duty.","Geo. Maury \nCol. Comdg. at Knoxville.","Hd. Quarters Knoxville \n20th March 1862","Colonel \nW. D. Stuart \n56 Va. Regiment","You are hereby directed to take command of all the forces here, formerly of Genl. Floyd's command in the movement towards Jacksboro. Capt. B. W. Snyder Qr. Master will report to you as Qr. Master for your command. He will be furnished with twelve 4 horse wagons for transportation of your command. If this transportation is more than sufficient for the tents, cooking utensils and ammunition necessary for your command you will please direct your commissary, whom you may select from your command, to load the unappropriated wagons with Flour and Bacon for which he will make requisition on the post commissary at this place.","Respectfully, \nGeo. Maney \nCol. Commanding \nForces at Knoxville","Hd Qrs Knoxville Mch 20th/62 \nSpecial Order \nNo--","Col. Stuart will move with his command tomorrow morning at 6 o'clk on the road to Clinton. You will have rations for one day cooked tonight.","By comd of \nCol. George Maney Comdg Post \nR.B. Snowden Adjt.","Head Qrs Knoxville, March 21st 1862 \nSpecial Order No-","Col Stuart \nYou will hold your command, composed of the 36th, 50th, 51st and 56th Regts in readiness to move at 4 o'clk this afternoon towards Jacksboro.","Col. George Maney Comdg Post \nR.B. Snowden Adj't.","Col. Stuart \nI am instructed by Col. Maney to say you will not put your command on the march until further orders. You are however instructed to hold it ready to move at a moment's notice.","R. B. Snowden Adjt. \nKnoxville March 21st 1862","Hd. Quarters Knoxville \nMarch 21st 1862","Col. Stuart \nCommand. of Floyd Brigade","Your order to march toward Clinton is revoked. I desire to see you at my Hd. Quarters in person at first convenient moment to regard to encamping your command here.","Very Respectfully \nGeo. Maney Col. \nCommnd. At Knoxville","Lebanon, 31st March 1862","Col. Stuart, \nOf so much of your order of the 28th as proposes the formation of a camp near Abingdon by the unfurloughed officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates of \"Floyd's Brigade\", I shall express no opinion at this time. I presume your halt at Abingdon, for instructions from Richmond, was in pursuance of your duty under the direction of Major General Smith. I am glad he has force to spare.","The others parts of your order I cheerfully approve and will sustain. I know of no vice so fatal to our soldiery as intemperance; and, independent of the loss of many genial fellows to the cause in which our swords are drawn, their fall is the gain of the meanest and the most heartless men in community. The vigor of authority shall not be wanting on my part to sustain every effort to limit the pernicious vice.","I enclose an Order, which please hand to Maj. Fisher that he may have a few struck off and sent after such of my men as have left Abingdon.","Your vindicatory note has been successful I imagine in proving that you did not delay marching last winter intentionally, but the failure to join me was a great misfortune to this command.","I am ready however to look forward and not backwards, and hope our acquaintance may be as agreeable in its continuance as it has been awkward in its beginning.","Yours Respectfully, \nH. Marshall \nBrig. Genl. Comd.","Apr 1st 1862 \nCol. Stuart","Dear Sir, \nThe bearer of this note Mr. Hanshew is the father of the soldier in the 50th Regt. The young man is at present in hospital and has been quite a sufferer. He was sick in the autumn and before fairly recovered was taken to the west. He was subjected to all the exposure and hardships at Ft. Donelson where he was frost bitten in the trenches. The retreat and long march have proved too much for him and he is really quite worn out. His father wishes to take\nhim home for a few weeks if possible to [illegible] him \u0026 I think it important for the young man to go. I know the father well, he is worthy of trust and is a man of excellent character.","I am sir very truly yours \nJohn B. Floyd","Confederate States of America \nTREASURY DEPARTMENT \nFIRST AUDITOR'S OFFICE \nApr. 8th 1862","Dear Mr. Stuart, \nI think I shall die if I don't manage to get with the Army in some capacity or other, \u0026 as the circumstances of my family do not admit of my going as a private, I must try to obtain some position which will pay. I have not the presumption to ask for a commission in the Infantry or Artillery, where a knowledge of military tactics is essential, but as all the appointments are not made in the Engineers Corps \u0026 for that a knowledge of Mathematics more than anything else is required, I have thought that I might possibly by some study in the meanwhile fit myself for a position in the Engineers. I would not myself have thought such to be the case, but for the assurance of a friend, who is in the Corps \u0026 and after considerable experience says that I am fully capable of filling such a position creditably. The object of my writing this letter therefore is to request that you will give me a testimonial to be presented to the Sec. of War, who would doubtless be influenced by what you say. Possibly with that \u0026 what I may get old Bledsoe, the Asst. Sec. to say for me, I may obtain a Lieutenancy in the Engineers.","If Frank had been successful I would not myself apply, but I suppose his application is pretty securely pigeon holed \u0026 he will never hear from it, though Tom Harris is now in the city \u0026 a member of the Military Committee of Congress.","I saw Aunt F. last night and she and the children are in good spirits, looking forward to visiting you in Abingdon, in accordance with your letter of recent date. Aunt F. was glad to hear of your being so well \u0026 comfortably fixed \u0026 perhaps her cheerfulness is only the reflection from your good spirits, as she learns from your letters \u0026 others who have seen you.","Ma and the children are pleasantly fixed in Danville \u0026 are all very well: Frank was at Orange C. H. when I heard from him, though there is a rumor that his division went down to reinforce Magurder. The sky is brightening. I have not time to write more at present. Hoping to hear from you soon, I remain yours affectionately. \nW.R. Abbott","Abingdon 20th April 1862 \nCol. Stuart","Dear Sir, \nMrs. Saunders, the bearer of this is the mother of the boy who is applying for a discharge on the score of minority. I sent you the certificate, \u0026 c some days ago. I have no doubt of his being under age. She wants to know the conditions of his application. May I ask you to let her know it?","With the highest respect \nYour obd. Servt. \nJohn B. Floyd","Confederate States of America \nWAR DEPARTMENT \nEngineer's Bureau \nRichmond, Va. 30 April 1862","Genl. G. W. Randolph \nSecretary of War","Sir, \nI have had the pleasure of knowing Col. W. D. Stuart for many years. At Lexington where we were cadets together, his peculiar qualifications as a soldier and tactician, on graduating, led to his immediate appointment as assistant instructor of infantry and artillery tactics, a position\nwhich he held with much credit for three years. Since the commencement of the war he has been constantly engaged on active service, first on the Peninsula and afterwards in the West. In the first locality I had the pleasure of again meeting him and heard him uniformly spoken of as a gallant, efficient, and accomplished officer.","In these days of uncertain tenure of office, your endorsement of the substance of this letter would probably be of great service to him, especially as his standing on the Peninsula and conduct in the Battle of Bethel are personally known to you.","With great respect, your obedient servant, \nA. L. Rives \nActing Chf. Eng. Bu.","War Department \nApril 30th 1862","I take great pleasure in bearing the testimony to the gallantry and conduct of Col. Stuart at the Battle of Bethel of which I was an eye witness, and to his efficiency as an officer and his deportment as a gentleman. He is an educated soldier and I should be sorry for the Country to lose his services. \nGeo. W. Randolph","Camp near Winchester, Va. \nOct 26 1862","My dear Colonel: \nI have rec'd your report of the battle of \"South Mountain\" and with it your very kind note.","I can truly assure you I was much gratified with the expressions of regard and esteem you therein expressed towards me. My brief association with you was among the most pleasant I have formed during the war and I sincerely trust it may be renewed at no distant time, under such auspices that we may be able to cultivate a still closer intimacy. With many prayers for you safety and happiness I remain truly your friend \nR. B. Garnett","Provost Marshal's Office \nLynchburg, Va. \nOct 30th 1862 \nCol. W. D. Stuart","Dear Sir, \nI received this morning a letter from one of the 56th Va. Regt. informing me that \"you \u0026 Maj. Green intended to write to the War Department and endeavor if possible to have me relieved of duty here and ordered to return to Regt.\" I at first doubted its authenticity, but seeing it was from a semi-official source I necessarily attached some importance to it.","I was astonished to hear that you contemplated such a thing as it would undoubtedly place me in a false light before the Department. I presumed you had received official notification of my appointment here.","I have always thought you were magnanimous enough not only to be willing for any officer of your Regt. to obtain promotion and a better position, but would aid him if possible in doing so.","I informed you in three letters before that I applied in Sept. last to Q. M. for transportation to Regt. and applying the same day to Adjt. Gen. Cooper in person to ascertain the point to go to, was directed by him to report to Maj. Gen. Smith for duty. By whom I was sent to Brig. Gen. Winder who ordered me to take charge of the C. S. Military Prison. I remained there about three weeks and discharged the duties satisfactorily to my commissioning officer and was on the 21st Oct. appointed \"Provost Marshal\" of this city with written orders from Maj. Gen. G. W. Smith, a copy of which I send you.","Each position was unsolicited and unexpected by me; but at the same time agreeable ad satisfactory; because the \"posts\" I was assigned were not only easier and higher than the Capt. of Infantry, but also horses and servants furnished me, and paid $180 per month. The pay however is no consideration with me. The chances of promotion are still greater in my present position.","I will also state to you, that is I preferred it, I am legally exempt from military duty by the recent \"exemption act\" passed by both \"Houses of Congress\" and approved by the President. First I have a plantation with over 40 negroes, and on it \"no white male adult not liable to military duty.\" Second I have a large manufacturing mill and my superintendence is necessary for its successful operation. For either 1st or 2nd reasons I am exempt by \"Act of Congress\".","But notwithstanding pecuniary losses I am willing to remain in the army, provided my services will accomplish anything in the cause we are engaged.","I hope this will be satisfactory to you. I fear you did not receive my former letters making substantially the same statements as above; and I feel a conscientious sense of duty, in justice to myself to write to you again","The appointment here was somewhat complimentary to me and I have intimations already of a higher and more responsible position being assigned me.","I would be glad if you would answer this.","Very respectfully \nYour obt. Servant \nThomas D. Jeffress \nCapt. and Provost Marshall of Lynchburg","P.S. I understand that only 8 or 10 efficient men of Co. \"G\" are with the Regt. and only about 22 or 23 in all on roll. I left several in Richmond at Hospital who will probably never recover sufficiently to return to duty. \nT. D. J.","18th Va. Regt. \nNov. 26th 1862 \nCol. W. D. Stuart","Col., \nIn reply to your note rec'd some time since asking of the \"mention made\" of Capt. T. D. Jeffress \"upon\" a report of one of the Richmond battles forwarded by myself to Brigade Hd. Qrs., I have to say that Capt. Jeffress made out the report of the battle himself, he being the Senr. Officer present who was in the fight. When the report was handed to me Lt. Chaffin Actg. Adjt. told me that the officers of the Regt. desired that I should make mention of the good conduct of Capt. Jeffress in battle, as the Capt. from motives of delicacy would of course say nothing of himself. I endorsed upon the report that I was not in the battle myself, was not in command of the Regiment at the time the events spoken of occurred, but that at the request of others, I would state that Capt. Jeffress deserved \"honorable mention\" for good conduct in battle. I have since learned that Lt. Chaffin was not in the fight himself and I am sorry that I acted upon his suggestion and made the endorsement referred to for the reason that I appeared to discriminate in favor of Capt. Jeffress when in fact I knew nothing of the conduct of any officer in the Regiment in the battle alluded to.","I am Col. \nVery Respectfully \nGeo. C. Cabell, Major","Camp Near Petersburg \nof Pickett's Div. Garnett's Brig. \nMarch 7th 1863 \nGenl. S. A. Cooper","Sir, \nI respectfully make an application for 25 Conscripts the requisite number to fill the reduced ranks of my Company at its present standard. You will confer a favour by assigning to the ranks of my Company 25 Conscripts,or any number as you, in your judgement may think proper or circumstances may require. You can see by my muster roll that my company only numbers 31 total present or absent, having never received any Conscripts since its entry into\nservice.","Most Respectfully \nYour obedient Servt. \nF. W. Nelson \nLt. Comd. Co. \"A\" 56th Va.","Camp Near Petersburg, Va. \nMarch 7th 1863","I respectfully ask permission to be absent from my duties for a few days for the following reasons. My property has been dwindling away daily since 25th Dec last, for want of my personal attention. My negroes are roaming through the country without a proper home and I will probably lose them all if I cannot attend to the matter immediately. I leave my company in command of the Capt. I have deferred asking leave of absence until now, because of there being only two (2) officers belonging to the company and the comdg. Officer of the Regt. deems it best that the vacancies of 2nd and 2nd jr. Lieuts. should not be filled at present, I presume because of the smallness of the Co. I reenlisted as a private and have never received a furlough or anything in lieu thereof and have never been absent without leave.","S. D. Cronin 1st Lieut. \nCo. \"I\" 56th Va. Regt.","March 8th, 1863","I respectfully ask for a leave of absence for 20 days to visit my home in Mecklenburg Co. Va. having been in the service for 20 months and having never received but four days furlough since the organization of my Regiment. I hope this application will be granted. I was originally a 12 months Volunteer and subsequently reenlisted for the War.","Lieut. F. W. Nelson \nCo. A. 56th Va. Regt.","Kittrell's Springs \nJuly 27th 1863 \nCol. Wm. D. Stuart","Dear Sir, \nI was transferred from General Hospital No. 10 to Black's and White's Hospital, from that place on the recommendation of the Medical Director in Richmond (Dr. Wm. Carrington) I was allowed the privilege of going home and report once in fifteen days in person or through my Physician's certificate. My furlough was extended the other day, 30 days to enable me to visit\nthe Springs for my health. I am improving very rapidly mow and shall be on, as soon as I am able for duty. You have passed though a very fiery ordeal since I left you. I regret being absent from my company in time of battle. I am truly sorry to learn that you are wounded, hope it will not prove serious, and allow me here to indulge the hope that you will be Genl. Garrett's successor. You certainly deserve the place. I am very anxious to hear from my company. I heard indirectly that Lieut. Finley was wounded, whether seriously or not I did not learn. Pickett's Division was very badly cut up. The mortality among officers was unprecedented. I expect to be here at least two weeks longer. I wish to get entirely well before returning. When I return again I hope to be able to stay with you. Direct your letter to \"Lawrenceville. Brunswick Co. Va.\" With my best wishes that you may speedily recover and when I see you again you may be my Brigadier. I subscribe myself your true friend, \nN. A. Flournoy"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWilliam D. Stuart papers, 1850-1863. MS 0108. VMI Archives, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["William D. Stuart papers, 1850-1863. MS 0108. VMI Archives, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe bulk of the William D. Stuart papers consists of the Civil War papers (60 items; 1861-1863) of Stuart. The papers contain:\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCorrespondence to and from various Confederate Army officers\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMorning and guard reports\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMilitary orders\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInvoices and receipts documenting Stuart's brief service with the 15th Virginia Infantry Regiment and his command of the 56th Virginia Infantry Regiment\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\nOther items include letters of recommendation for a United\nStates Army Commission (1850), a letter from Gabriel Jordan, Jr. (VMI Class of 1850) dated November 1854, and printed material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from VMI, Lexington, Virginia. Letter endorses William D. Stuart's application for a commission in the United States Army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from VMI, Lexington, Virginia. Letter endorses William D. Stuart's application for a commission in the United States Army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from VMI, Lexington, Virginia. Letter endorses William D. Stuart's application for a commission in the United States Army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Huntsville, Alabama. Letter comments on respective marriages, jobs, and future prospects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Richmond, Virginia. Letter asks Virginia Governor John Letcher for an appointment in the Army in the event of secession.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpecial Order No. 81 from Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart is assigned to duty with troops at the camp of instruction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Richmond, Virginia. Letter expresses regret at William D. Stuart's resignation as commanding officer of the Richmond City Guard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from the Camp of Instruction, Richmond. Letter to an unidentified colonel regards the placement of William D. Stuart and other officers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Richmond, Virginia. Letter regards materials to make a tent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Williamsburg, Virginia. Letter orders William D. Stuart to work on fortifications at King's Mill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpecial Order No. 222 from Youngs Farm. Regards payment of troops and powers of attorney. By command of General Magruder and signed by G. B. Cosby, A.A.A.G.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpecial Order No. 280 from the Adjutant Inspector General's office, Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart is promoted and assigned to the command of the 56th Virginia Regiment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Camp Lee. Letter regards a flag for William D. Stuart's regiment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpecial Order No. 232 from Richmond, Virginia by command of Secretary of War per John Withers. The 56th Virginia Infantry regiment is ordered to Jeffersonville, Virginia to report to Brigadier General Marshall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Pound Gap, Virginia. William D. Stuart is ordered to move his regiment forward by Pound Gap towards Prestonsburg, Kentucky.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Wytheville, Virginia. Telegram regards wagons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Wytheville, Virginia. Letter regards transportation vouchers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart's regiment is ordered to Nashville, Tennessee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Knoxville, Tennessee. General A. S. Johnson orders William D. Stuart's regiment to remain with General Marshall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart's regiment is to proceed to Pound Gap to report to General Marshall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpecial Order No. 8 from Headquarters 1st Brigade, Army of Eastern Kentucky, Camp near Paintville, by order of General Marshall. William D. Stuart's regiment is to move immediately without further delay.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Paintville, Kentucky. William D. Stuart must move his regiment without delay.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart is directed by the Secretary of War to report to General Marshall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter concerns orders to go to Pound Gap, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter regards contradictory orders and illness of William D. Stuart and men.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter reprts on sickness of regiment and men in hospital.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpecial Order No. 1 from Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart's regiment\nis detached from General Marshall's command and will proceed to Bowling Green, Kentucky to General A. S. Johnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter regards order to proceed to Bowling Green, Kentucky. Letter also encloses Special Order No. 1 (dated January 2, 1862).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Richmond, Virginia. Letter regards confusion in orders to 56th Virginia Infantry Regiment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Richmond, Virginia. Letter regards William T. Cross' certificate of disability.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Richmond, Virginia. Letter regards William D. Stuart rejoining his regiment after a severe illness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Order No. 246 from Floyd's Division, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Reenlisted men are entitled to a 60 day furlough, but this may be suspended in case of \"collision with the enemy.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Order No. 27 (extract) from Floyd's Division, Camp Bettie Childress. Order regards movement of the command via rail.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpecial Order from Floyd's Division, Knoxville, Tennessee. General Floyd is relieved of command and regimental commanders are to report to Colonel George Maney.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is to hold his regiment ready to move and to report on the strength of his command.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is directed to \"take command of all the forces here, formerly of Genl Floyd's command, in the movement towards Jacksboro.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpecial order from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is to move tomorrow on the road to Clinton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpecial Order from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is to hold command of the 36th, 50th, 51st and 56th Virginia Regiments in readiness to move towards Jacksboro.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is not to move his command until further orders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart march towards Clinton is revoked.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Lebanon. Letter regards previous orders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter regards releasing a sick soldier (Hanshew, 50th Virginia Regiment) to go home with his father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter requests recommendation to enter the Confederate Army and family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter regards discharge of an underage soldier.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Richmond, Virginia. Letter commends William D. Stuart, with an endorsement specifically about his gallantry at the Battle of Bethel, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Winchester, Virginia. Letter acknowledges receipt of report of Battle of South Mountain (Maryland) and expresses personal regard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Lynchburg, Virginia. Letter protests Thomas D. Jeffress' return to the Regiment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter regards a report in which George C. Cabell erroneously commended Captain Thomas D. Jeffress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Petersburg, Virginia. Letter requests 25 conscripts to fill reduced ranks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Petersburg, Virginia. Letter requests to be absent from duty to see to business at home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter requests a leave of absence to visit home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Kittrell's Springs, North Carolina. This letter was written after the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and it comments on casualties in regiment and general news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from Richmond, Virginia. Telegram regards search of trains for stolen coffee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport for the 56th Virginia Regiment at Camp Robertson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport for the 56th Virginia Regiment at Camp Robertson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpecial duty roster for the 56th Virginia Regiment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGuard report for the 56th Virginia Regiment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for wall tent pins and poles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for ordnance (cartridges).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice of commutation of quarters and fuel for 1st Lieutenant George W. May, Company C. 56th Virginia, for the period of December 8 to 31, 1861.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice of commutation of quarters and fuel for 1st Lieutenant George W. May, Company C. 56th Virginia, for the period of January 1 to 31, 1862.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for wall tents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo receipts for muskets and cartridge boxes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for clothing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for commissary stores.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes a draft of a speech given upon presentation of a flag to the 56th Virginia Infantry Regiment, court-martial specifications, and other documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes programs and other documents from Roanoke, Virginia area camps.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The bulk of the William D. Stuart papers consists of the Civil War papers (60 items; 1861-1863) of Stuart. The papers contain:\n Correspondence to and from various Confederate Army officers Morning and guard reports Military orders Invoices and receipts documenting Stuart's brief service with the 15th Virginia Infantry Regiment and his command of the 56th Virginia Infantry Regiment \nOther items include letters of recommendation for a United\nStates Army Commission (1850), a letter from Gabriel Jordan, Jr. (VMI Class of 1850) dated November 1854, and printed material.","Written from VMI, Lexington, Virginia. Letter endorses William D. Stuart's application for a commission in the United States Army.","Written from VMI, Lexington, Virginia. Letter endorses William D. Stuart's application for a commission in the United States Army.","Written from VMI, Lexington, Virginia. Letter endorses William D. Stuart's application for a commission in the United States Army.","Written from Huntsville, Alabama. Letter comments on respective marriages, jobs, and future prospects.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Letter asks Virginia Governor John Letcher for an appointment in the Army in the event of secession.","Special Order No. 81 from Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart is assigned to duty with troops at the camp of instruction.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Letter expresses regret at William D. Stuart's resignation as commanding officer of the Richmond City Guard.","Written from the Camp of Instruction, Richmond. Letter to an unidentified colonel regards the placement of William D. Stuart and other officers.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Letter regards materials to make a tent.","Written from Williamsburg, Virginia. Letter orders William D. Stuart to work on fortifications at King's Mill.","Special Order No. 222 from Youngs Farm. Regards payment of troops and powers of attorney. By command of General Magruder and signed by G. B. Cosby, A.A.A.G.","Special Order No. 280 from the Adjutant Inspector General's office, Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart is promoted and assigned to the command of the 56th Virginia Regiment.","Written from Camp Lee. Letter regards a flag for William D. Stuart's regiment.","Special Order No. 232 from Richmond, Virginia by command of Secretary of War per John Withers. The 56th Virginia Infantry regiment is ordered to Jeffersonville, Virginia to report to Brigadier General Marshall.","Written from Pound Gap, Virginia. William D. Stuart is ordered to move his regiment forward by Pound Gap towards Prestonsburg, Kentucky.","Written from Wytheville, Virginia. Telegram regards wagons.","Written from Wytheville, Virginia. Letter regards transportation vouchers.","Written from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart's regiment is ordered to Nashville, Tennessee.","Written from Knoxville, Tennessee. General A. S. Johnson orders William D. Stuart's regiment to remain with General Marshall.","From Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart's regiment is to proceed to Pound Gap to report to General Marshall.","Special Order No. 8 from Headquarters 1st Brigade, Army of Eastern Kentucky, Camp near Paintville, by order of General Marshall. William D. Stuart's regiment is to move immediately without further delay.","Written from Paintville, Kentucky. William D. Stuart must move his regiment without delay.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart is directed by the Secretary of War to report to General Marshall.","Written from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter concerns orders to go to Pound Gap, Virginia.","Written from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter regards contradictory orders and illness of William D. Stuart and men.","Written from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter reprts on sickness of regiment and men in hospital.","Special Order No. 1 from Richmond, Virginia. William D. Stuart's regiment\nis detached from General Marshall's command and will proceed to Bowling Green, Kentucky to General A. S. Johnston.","Written from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter regards order to proceed to Bowling Green, Kentucky. Letter also encloses Special Order No. 1 (dated January 2, 1862).","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Letter regards confusion in orders to 56th Virginia Infantry Regiment.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Letter regards William T. Cross' certificate of disability.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Letter regards William D. Stuart rejoining his regiment after a severe illness.","General Order No. 246 from Floyd's Division, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Reenlisted men are entitled to a 60 day furlough, but this may be suspended in case of \"collision with the enemy.\"","General Order No. 27 (extract) from Floyd's Division, Camp Bettie Childress. Order regards movement of the command via rail.","Special Order from Floyd's Division, Knoxville, Tennessee. General Floyd is relieved of command and regimental commanders are to report to Colonel George Maney.","Written from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is to hold his regiment ready to move and to report on the strength of his command.","Written from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is directed to \"take command of all the forces here, formerly of Genl Floyd's command, in the movement towards Jacksboro.\"","Special order from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is to move tomorrow on the road to Clinton.","Special Order from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is to hold command of the 36th, 50th, 51st and 56th Virginia Regiments in readiness to move towards Jacksboro.","Written from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart is not to move his command until further orders.","Written from Knoxville, Tennessee. William D. Stuart march towards Clinton is revoked.","Written from Lebanon. Letter regards previous orders.","Letter regards releasing a sick soldier (Hanshew, 50th Virginia Regiment) to go home with his father.","Letter requests recommendation to enter the Confederate Army and family news.","Written from Abingdon, Virginia. Letter regards discharge of an underage soldier.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Letter commends William D. Stuart, with an endorsement specifically about his gallantry at the Battle of Bethel, Virginia.","Written from Winchester, Virginia. Letter acknowledges receipt of report of Battle of South Mountain (Maryland) and expresses personal regard.","Written from Lynchburg, Virginia. Letter protests Thomas D. Jeffress' return to the Regiment.","Letter regards a report in which George C. Cabell erroneously commended Captain Thomas D. Jeffress.","Written from Petersburg, Virginia. Letter requests 25 conscripts to fill reduced ranks.","Written from Petersburg, Virginia. Letter requests to be absent from duty to see to business at home.","Letter requests a leave of absence to visit home.","Written from Kittrell's Springs, North Carolina. This letter was written after the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and it comments on casualties in regiment and general news.","Written from Richmond, Virginia. Telegram regards search of trains for stolen coffee.","Report for the 56th Virginia Regiment at Camp Robertson.","Report for the 56th Virginia Regiment at Camp Robertson.","Special duty roster for the 56th Virginia Regiment.","Guard report for the 56th Virginia Regiment.","Receipt for wall tent pins and poles.","Receipt for ordnance (cartridges).","Invoice of commutation of quarters and fuel for 1st Lieutenant George W. May, Company C. 56th Virginia, for the period of December 8 to 31, 1861.","Invoice of commutation of quarters and fuel for 1st Lieutenant George W. 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